One arrested for the violent death of a woman in Lloret de Mar
The victim's lifeless body has been found inside a tourist apartment.
BarcelonaThe Mossos d'Esquadra are investigating a new homicide in Catalonia. Catalan police officers are trying to clarify the violent death of a woman this Thursday morning in Lloret de Mar, in the region of La Selva. According to ARA, the police have already arrested a man for his alleged connection to the crime.
The local police received a call this morning at 11:30 a.m. alerting them of the presence of the lifeless body of a woman inside a home on Sant Bartomeu Street. Mossos d'Esquadra investigators confirmed that the body showed signs of violence and opened an investigation. The address where they found the body is a tourist apartment.
In fact, the company that manages this establishment found it when the checkout (The exit) from the apartment of the people who were staying there. At that time, they located the lifeless body and verified the abundant blood in the apartment, according to sources consulted by ARA. Everything points to the crime being committed with a knife.
Investigators have conducted a technical-police ocular inspection (IOTP) of the crime scene and have collected all the evidence and clues that could provide information to locate the perpetrator. In addition, they have interrogated the person who found the body to find out the identity of the people staying in the apartment and whether they might have any connection to the victim and the murderer. After a few hours, the Catalan police located a man allegedly linked to the events. After taking him into police custody, they finally arrested him. In the afternoon, the judicial team transferred the suspect to the crime scene. They are now investigating his relationship with the woman and whether it could be an act of domestic violence.
Secret summary and autopsy.
The Blanes investigating court took charge of the case and ordered the proceedings to be kept secret. The victim's body was transferred to the Girona Institute of Forensic Medicine, where forensic experts will perform an autopsy in the coming hours.
The Lloret de Mar City Council has called for a minute of silence tomorrow at noon in Plaça de la Vila, in front of the town hall building, to express its condemnation of the violent death of a woman in the municipality.