A gender-based crime is being investigated in Baix Camp: the partner of a woman found in a ravine has been arrested.

BarcelonaThe Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) are investigating the homicide of a woman in the Baix Camp region. The events date back to September 8th, when the body of a 36-year-old woman was found in a ravine near Riudecanyes. According to sources consulted by ARA, the body was discovered very close to a road and under a bridge. The initial forensic examination at the scene, near where the body was found, led police to believe it could be a suicide. While this was the leading hypothesis, an autopsy was needed to confirm it. However, the autopsy has led to a dramatic turn of events: the Mossos arrested the victim's partner, a 49-year-old man, in Reus on Wednesday as the suspected perpetrator of her death. The forensic analysis ruled out suicide and confirmed it was a homicide. With these results, the investigating officers looked into the victim's circle and focused on the couple. The main hypothesis, according to sources consulted by ARA, is that the man allegedly killed her elsewhere and then abandoned the body in that ravine, staging it as a suicide. Both the victim and the detainee lived in Riudecanyes, a town of 1,300 inhabitants, and were well-known in the town. The detainee appeared before a judge this morning at the Reus Court of Instruction Number 3. This Friday, the court specializing in violence against women in Hospitalet de Llobregat remanded the man arrested for the latest femicide in the country to pretrial detention without bail. He allegedly killed his partner in the apartment where they lived in L'Hospitalet.