A 37-year-old man has been arrested for killing his mother in El Vendrell.

The Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) arrested a man on Wednesday at midday in connection with the violent death of his mother in El Vendrell (Baix Penedès). At 1:40 p.m., the Catalan police were notified that a woman's body had been found.at her home. Officers traveled to the scene with paramedics from the Medical Emergency System (SEM), who confirmed the woman's death. At the same address, the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) located a 37-year-old man, the victim's son, who was arrested for his alleged involvement in the events. Agents from the DIC (Criminal Investigation Division) of the Camp de Tarragona Police Region are investigating the woman's death as a case of domestic violence. The investigation has been sealed. Eleven femicides

If the police theory is confirmed, the murder in El Vendrell will be the eleventh femicide in Catalonia since the beginning of the year, comprising ten women murdered due to gender-based violence and one related femicide. Since official data collection began in 2012, there have been 158 femicides in Catalonia, of which 148 were women and 10 were children and young people murdered in the context of gender-based violence. The number of children orphaned by gender-based violence is 11 in 2025 and more than one hundred in the last decade.

The last crime of gender-based violence in Catalonia took place three weeks ago. The Mossos d'Esquadra A 46-year-old man was arrested as the suspected perpetrator of the murder of his partner in Hospitalet de Llobregat.The femicide took place in the early hours of the morning in the apartment where they both lived, and the man was arrested first thing in the morning. The murdered woman had three daughters.