A 40-year-old man was arrested this Sunday after attacking his ex-partner and her boyfriend with a knife at number 9 in the San Blas neighborhood of Madrid. The aggressor showed up at around 5:00 p.m. at the woman’s home with a knife and knocked on the door. After opening him, the 56-year-old pounced on him, stabbing him several times, according to Samur sources, in the chest, neck and hands. Likewise, and with the same weapon, he targeted her current partner, aged 55, who was with her in the house, and stabbed at least ten people. According to Samur sources, the injured man had “10 stab wounds all over his body, the most serious being those in the chest and neck, and he had to be intubated.”
The attacker, who was subject to a restraining order from his ex-partner, according to sources in the case, has been detained by agents of the National Police and was already in the UFAM (U.S. Police Units) facilities late this Sunday afternoon. Attention to Family and Women), because it is understood that this is a case of gender violence.
Two who were off duty are the ones who arrested the aggressor. “They saw a man in a shopping center full of blood stains on clothes and hands and asked him to identify himself and, immediately, when comparing the data, all the alarms went off,” police sources report.
Both victims have been admitted “with a reserved prognosis.” He, at the 12 de Octubre Hospital, and she, at the Gregorio Marañón. The injured were initially treated by Samur doctors, who were also responsible for transporting them to hospital centers, with an escort from the Madrid Municipal Police.
Telephone 016 assists victims of sexist violence, their families and those around them 24 hours a day, every day of the year, in 53 different languages. The number is not registered on the telephone bill, but the call must be deleted from the device. You can also contact via email and by WhatsApp at the number 600 000 016. Minors can contact the ANAR Foundation telephone number 900 20 20 10. If it is an emergency situation, you can call 112 or the National Police telephone numbers (091) and the Civil Guard (062). And if you cannot call, you can use the ALERTCOPS application, from which an alert signal is sent to the Police with geolocation.
