A tragedy was recorded this week in the city of Elche, in Alicante (Spain). A 15-year-old minor was arrested on Friday by the Police of that country after murder his parents and his 10-year-old brother.
The triple crime was perpetrated at his home in the district of Algoda. Local media have reported that the teenager was absent from classes for three days and had said that he “had covid-19”.
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The authorities are investigating the causes of the event, although the strongest hypothesis is that the triple homicide could have originated after an argument between the young man and his mother, who decided remove wifi as punishment for his poor grades and because he did not help the family with agricultural tasks, sources close to the case told Efe.
The minor would have been discovered because a neighbor asked him about his parents, since he had not seen them for a long time. The accused replied that he had killed them. With that response, the woman alerted a family member of the couple, who called the police and emergency services, according to the newspaper. ‘The country’.
The young man had lived with the bodies of his relatives for three days. First versions assure that the man loaded the bodies one by one to hide them in the shed of the house.
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On Friday, February 11, the young man was arrested when authorities arrived at the house. Investigators informed the media that the minor confessed to the crime and that his attitude has been one of “coldness” and “no remorse”.
Close friends spoke with the Efe agency and told him that he was a good student, although his school performance had dropped because, according to reports, “he was too lazy to study.”
The mayor of Algoda, Toñi Coves, told Efe that the family had lived there for almost two decades. “It was a very normal family, who led a very familiar life,” she said.
The minor will be presented in the next few hours before the Juvenile Prosecutor’s Office.
TIME*
With information from Efe
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