They arrest an 85-year-old man for the violent death of his ex-daughter-in-law in Madrid
The police are investigating the crime of a 47-year-old woman in the home that she allegedly shared with the arrested person
BarcelonaThe National Police arrested an 85-year-old man this Saturday morning for the violent death of his 47-year-old former daughter-in-law in Madrid. The victim's body was found with signs of strangulation in the home that both allegedly shared in the Madrid district of Arganzuela.
As sources from the Superior Police Headquarters of Madrid informed Efe, the alert was given this Saturday at 11:10 a.m. by the detainee's son, who was the victim's former partner. The man alerted the police that his father had called him claiming that he had committed "a serious act" and that he was waiting for the officers to arrive.
The detainee is an 85-year-old man of Spanish nationality and the victim, 47, is of Asian origin, according to the same sources, who said that for the moment more circumstances of the event are unknown. The investigation of the case has been assumed by Homicide Group VI.
The spokesperson for the 112 Emergency Service of the Community of Madrid, Luis Serrano, reported that, when the municipal police officers arrived at the home on Ferrocarril street, they found the woman supposedly in cardiorespiratory arrest and began resuscitation maneuvers.
However, emergency personnel could only confirm the death. The victim showed signs on her body that indicate, apparently, that she had died by strangulation, but Serrano stressed that the autopsy will determine the cause of death.
Possible family femicide
While waiting for the facts to be clarified, this Saturday's crime in Madrid—the fifth against a woman—would be a "familial femicide," which is the category the Spanish government assigns to femicides at the hands of men in the victim's family environment, without them being their partner or ex-partner.
Since the beginning of the year, 37 women have been murdered by sexist violence in Spain; 1,378 since 2003, when data began to be officially collected. In the Community of Madrid, four cases have been identified this year; the same figure as in Catalonia.
