Overview
- L’Hospitalet de Llobregat police detained a 46-year-old man after his partner, 36, was found with fatal stab wounds, with the Criminal Investigation Division leading the probe and the city calling a public vigil and 24 hours of mourning.
- In Gernika, a 50-year-old man accused of holding his ex-partner for hours, assaulting her and threatening her with an axe despite a restraining order was ordered into provisional prison by the duty court.
- Valencia officers arrested a 22-year-old suspected of prolonged abuse who allegedly held a knife to his partner’s neck while she carried their three-week-old baby and threatened to throw the infant from a balcony, with GAMA unit evidence citing coercive control.
- In Palma, a trial opened against a father accused of sexually assaulting his daughter over years, with prosecutors seeking 34 years in prison and damages for the victim.
- Separate from domestic cases, Madrid police arrested a man at Sol station after an 80-year-old woman was shoved against a train and repeatedly beaten, leaving her hospitalized in serious condition.