A man killed his wife with a firearm and then committed suicide in Alicante. According to the National Police, they received a message from neighbors and relatives this Sunday night and when they went to the couple's home, they found the bodies of both, the woman was allegedly killed by her partner with a firearm.
The victim is a 33-year-old woman and the alleged perpetrator of the crime is a 36-year-old Spaniard. If it is confirmed as gender violence, it would be the second case in a weekend in the Valencian Community after the case of another woman murdered in Buñol, also at the hands of her partner.
According to initial information, the police are investigating the circumstances of the deaths as a case of sexist violence. There were no previous complaints against the couple for abuse and it was not registered in the VioGen system.
The government delegation against gender violence has already indicated that this is being investigated as a possible case of gender violence. five sexist crimes that occurred in just one weekend in Spain.
In the early hours of Saturday alone, three men murdered their wives, two in Catalonia and one in Madrid, in what was a dark weekend for gender violence.
The Mossos d'Esquadra have opened an investigation into the murder of two women in Salou and Sabadell. According to the Catalan police, the first took place on Saturday evening, shortly after 20:15. The officers received a report that an 84-year-old woman was dead with signs of crime in an apartment on Tortosa Street in the city of Tarragona and arrested an 86-year-old man as the alleged perpetrator of a murderous crime.
On the other hand, shortly before 5am, the Catalan police found the lifeless body of a woman who also showed signs of criminality at the entrance of a house on Pajares Street in Sabadell. Police sources have confirmed the arrest of a man this Sunday at 6pm in the same city, who is accused of having committed this crime.
For its part, the National Police are investigating the death of a 29-year-old woman in the early hours of Saturday in the Carabanchel district of Madrid as an alleged case of gender violence. Her partner was arrested as the suspected perpetrator of the murder, which Summa 112 confirmed yesterday at around 6:00 am, after the man alerted the emergency services, warning that the woman was unconscious and “not responding to stimuli”.