Carlos waited for Saturday night to Judith at the entrance to the underground parking of the house of the young man in Terrassa (Barcelona). The Friday had been of the guard as mosso d’esquadra. He left his car in the street, badly parked, waiting. When the young man came and agreed by the ramp, he came behind, on foot. Shortly after Carlos shot him in the head with the weapon’s regulatory body. After he committed suicide. A neighbor saw the bodies and gave notice to the police. The Sunday morning the Mossos d’esquadra have already confirmed that it was a crime sexist.
Judith and Carlos had been a couple for a while, but it was a few months that had separated and the young man had returned to live in his mother’s house, in the avenue of Madrid, on the outskirts of the city. I was 29 years old and had started a practice as a nursing assistant. He was over 40 and was part of the unit of citizen security in Terrassa.
According to the environment of the victim, the killer has not accepted the break up. “I called her a million times and chased her wherever she was going. The Mercadona, to the hospital… where outside,” explains a family. “Carlos was reserved, didn’t speak much,” added an aunt, “and was very jealous, so much.” Charles and Judith met at the wedding of the brother of him, and a cousin of Judith, and had maintained a relationship variable, with some breakdown and reconciliation. This time, ensures the environment of the girl, it was the final. “Now were not together. Carlos wanted to come back, but she’s not,” remarks the family. Do not contain allegations of the woman and no court record of violence between the two, according to informed yesterday, the high Court of Justice of Catalonia (TSJC).
Judith wanted another life. He had worked until last year in various centers of beauty, but just started on a new road. “I was doing the practices in the hospital Taulí as a nursing assistant”, specifically, an ex-partner’s work. Before it was enter into the body of the Mossos d’esquadra. “I wanted to take the world by storm and had a lot of personality,” he adds. A fellow student agrees: “he Was very jovial and cheerful; now I had an urge to travel.”
Family, acquaintances and hundreds of neighbors gathered in the plaza of city Hall to express their rejection. “The machismo explains so much foolishness. It belittles women; not see them as equals, but as possessions; and that you do not want to take their own decisions,” said the mayor of Terrassa, Jordi Ballart. “The machismo it destroys families and takes lives. We have to position ourselves against abusive relationships and to be activists in the respect.”
it Is the third murder of male violence this by the year 2020 in Spain, and the second in Catalonia. On the 14th of January, a man killed in Puertollano (Ciudad Real) to his partner and then committed suicide. The day of Kings, another man killed his former spouse and her three years old daughter in Esplugues de Llobregat (Barcelona).
The year 2019 will be closed with 55 women killed by their partners or ex-partners, the highest figure for five years. The number of women killed since 2003 —when it was created in the official statistics— is of 1.034. The 016 attends to all victims of domestic violence 24 hours a day and in 51 languages. It leaves No trace on the bill, but there is that delete from the call log of the mobile phone. Minors may also be sent to the phone of the Foundation Anar 900 20 20 10 and the citizens who witness any assault should call 112.
