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Spain Reports New Detentions in Gender Violence Cases as L’Hospitalet Killing Prompts Mourning

Officials signal a rapid, coordinated response across regions.

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.