A judge from Valls (Tarragona) has sent the man detained by the Mossos d’Esquadra to provisional prison in relation to the death and concealment of the body of his partner in July 2022 in the Montsant mountain range.
As reported by the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC), the case is open for the crimes of homicide, concealment of a corpse and physical and psychological abuse.
The Mossos d’Esquadra arrested the 53-year-old man this Tuesday in Barcelona as the alleged perpetrator of the violent death of his partner and the subsequent concealment of his body, still pending location.
The Catalan police began their investigation in August 2022, when the family of the woman, 44 years old and resident in Morera de Montsant, in the Priorat region, reported her disappearance. From the beginning, the Mossos pointed out that it was a criminal disappearance.
Throughout almost two years of investigations, the Mossos have worked to find “as much evidence as possible,” as explained by the regional police in a statement. The agents have tracked mobile phone data in the area until “breaking the alibi” maintained by the missing woman’s partner.
According to the Mossos, throughout the investigations “contradictions have been dismantled” about the man who ended up in prison and “relevant clues” for the investigation have also emerged, such as the fact that the arrested man kept the woman’s belongings months after his arrest. disappearance and that “in a normal context the victim would not have abandoned.”
The investigation remains open and the Mossos are now focusing on obtaining more information that will lead them to locate the victim’s body. If the sexist murder is confirmed, the number of women murdered by gender violence in Spain in 2022 would rise to 50.
016 assists all victims of sexist violence 24 hours a day and in 53 different languages, as does the email [email protected]; Attention is also provided through WhatsApp through the number 600000016, and minors can contact the ANAR Foundation telephone number 900 20 20 10.
In an emergency situation, you can call the Mossos d’Esquadra at 112 or the National Police (091) and the Civil Guard (062) telephone numbers and if you cannot call you can use the ALERTCOPS application, from which an alert signal is sent to the Police with geolocation.
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