A duty judge in Barcelona has ordered this Saturday the imprisonment, communicated and without bail, of the man, a 22-year-old Honduran, who on Thursday allegedly murdered the current partner of his ex-wife. The victim, a 44-year-old Spanish national, maintained a secret, lover’s relationship with the daughter of the owners of a bakery in the Gràcia neighborhood, where both worked. The deceased’s wife, a neighbor from Santa Coloma de Gramenet with whom they had a few-month-old son, found out that her partner had been murdered and that he was maintaining a parallel relationship with another woman.
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In this latest crime in Barcelona, there are so many intertwined characters, lies, and betrayals that a map is needed to understand a sequence that the homicide group of the Mossos d’Esquadra managed to reconstruct in a few hours. Although it was not easy.
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On Thursday, 112 received a report that a man had suffered a motorcycle accident on Almansa street in the Verdún neighborhood. But the paramedics found that he had stab wounds, and some workers on Casals street who are rehabilitating an entire block warned the police that there was a lot of blood at the door of the neighboring building. Not only on the door. There was blood on the parked cars, at the main entrance, and especially on the landing of the second floor.
The victim, who died shortly after arriving at Vall d’Hebron hospital, was not carrying any identification. Only a keychain from a bakery oven in Gràcia on the keys of the motorcycle with which he seemed to have tried to flee.
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The motorcycle provided the clue for his identification because it is registered in the name of his wife, a neighbor of Santa Coloma de Gramenet. The keychain helped to better understand the rest of the dramatic story.
The victim had started a secret lover’s relationship, hidden from others, with a coworker, the daughter of the bakery owners. The woman, very young, has a few-month-old son with the detainee, from whom she separated after reporting him for abuse. Despite the complaint, they continued to see each other occasionally. Moreover, the man exercised absolute control over everything the woman did and whom she saw. He followed her, and when he found out that she was seeing that coworker, the day before the crime, he went to meet him and they had a first confrontation.
On Thursday, the alleged murderer wanted to wait for his victim at his ex-wife’s house. When the lover arrived, the two men got into a fight, in which the alleged perpetrator used a knife. The victim left that apartment bloodied. And after him, the other two left. She went to her job at her parents’ bakery, and he also went to work, where he was arrested hours later accused of homicide. Neither called 112. The first to call was the clerk of a 24-hour store who was the woman who first attended to the victim. “He was asking me for water and shade,” the woman told La Vanguardia yesterday.
