A body was found inside a suitcase in Vilanova i la Geltrú and a suspect was arrested.
The victim and the arrested person shared a squatted apartment, where body parts were also allegedly found.
BarcelonaThe Catalan police (Mossos d'Esquadra) have arrested a 24-year-old man after finding the body of another man, completely dismembered, inside a suitcase in the center of Vilanova i la Geltrú, in the Garraf region. As reported by El Caso and confirmed by ARA, the suitcase was found by a cleaning worker this Saturday morning next to a dumpster on Carrer del Aigua, very close to Plaça de l'Anxaneta. The worker notified the emergency services at 7:39 a.m., and the local police and the Catalan police quickly cordoned off the area. Shortly after, according to police sources, officers from the Catalan police force arrested a man, the deceased's roommate, as a suspect in the crime. According to ARA, the case involved a squat on Carrer de Lepant, not far from where the body was found.
According to sources consulted by this newspaper, parts of the victim's body were also found in this apartment. The Criminal Investigation Division (DIC) of the Southern Metropolitan Police Region has taken over the investigation after the body was recovered. The police are working to determine the cause of death. A few minutes after 10:00 a.m., the Vilanova i la Geltrú City Council issued a statement on social media condemning the events: "Faced with the news of yet another violent death in just a few days in our city, the City Council wishes to express its profound condemnation of these events." A violent stabbing had already occurred in the municipality on September 11, when a homeless man, Milan, who had been living in a park for five years, suffered several fatal stab wounds. The council called for "prudence" in the face of these events, two deaths in less than ten days, which it considers "exceptional."
