Bilbao (EFE).- The Ertzaintza has arrested a 28-year-old man in the Bilbao neighborhood of Santutxu as the alleged murderer of an 89-year-old relative.
This woman has been found dead in her home with injuries caused by a knife, found next to the body.
The arrest was made in the street when this man approached a citizen security patrol of the autonomous police and confessed that he had stabbed a relative at his home.
A judicial delegation and members of the Scientific Police went to the apartment, at 61 Santutxu Street, to begin the investigation into this homicide.
This fact would be framed “in the field of domestic violence”, as reported by the Basque Department of Security.
The lifeless body of the victim has been transferred to the Bilbao Forensic Pathology Service, where the autopsy will be performed.
The judge has ordered preventive detention for the defendant.
The young man took care of her
A neighbor of the building where the woman lived has reported that the young man was going “to take care of her, because she was already old”.
He added that he does not know “what could have happened” to reach that outcome.
“I’ve known the lady since she was a little girl, I’ve lived here all my life… I think they got along well, I’ve never seen a problem between them,” she told the media.
Another neighbor has commented that the deceased was widowed many years ago and that she had no children, only nephews.
She has also indicated that she did not know if the arrested man lived with her or only visited her.
Another woman, who lives across the street, explained that the deceased suffered from health problems in her legs and that she had not left the house for more than a year.
“He looked out the window every day in the morning and in the afternoon, because the woman was alone and bored,” he recounted between sobs.
“When I left the house I always greeted her… except yesterday when she didn’t show up… I thought she was having a bad day… she was very nice,” she lamented.
A neighbor from the portal next door has also explained that at no time were screams heard “or anything at all.”
Institutional condemnations
The Provincial Council of Bizkaia has condemned the murder of this woman and has joined the initiatives of condemnation and rejection that are called.
It has also reiterated its “firm determination to eradicate all signs of violence against women.”
The political groups with representation in the Bilbao City Council have also expressed their condemnation and “deep indignation” for this murder.
The formations also recall that violence against women constitutes a “social scourge” and “an attack against their physical and moral integrity”, and therefore “a violation of Human Rights”.
For this reason, they urge citizens to position themselves “actively” against it with the aim of building relations of equality. EFE