The Civil Guard investigates the violent death of the businessman and former mayor of Gandia (Valencia) by the PP, whose lifeless body has been found at 22.35 on Wednesday next to his vehicle at the height of the Valencian municipality of Xeresa, according to sources from the Institute armed. The 62 -year -old victim presented signs of a possible strangulation and a bullet impact on the thorax, according to knowledgeable sources of the investigation.
The body’s discovery occurred after receiving a call from the deceased couple in which she warned her lifeless husband with her vehicle at kilometer 37 of the A-38 highway, to the Xeresa height. When appearing in the place, the agents found the body of who was mayor of Gandia between 2011 and 2015 for the Popular Party with the motor of the vehicle still on. Next to him was the wife, who had come to the alarmed place because Torró would not have responded to the four calls he made to see that he did not reach his home.
Sources close to the investigation detail that, of the first indications collected at the scene, they point out that Torro stopped his vehicle after a notice was skipped in the control panel that one of the wheels was deflated. When the victim left the car to verify what was happening, he was immobilized by his attacker or attackers with something similar to a rope, with which his neck surrounds him – hence the marks of a possible strangulation – and shoot him in the thorax, causing him Death.
Optometrist and entrepreneur, Torró was mayor of Gandia from 2011 to 2015, when, despite winning the elections of that year, he failed to form a government and had to leave the cane of command to the socialist Diana Morant, current Minister of Science. A year later, he resigned as PP spokesman in the Consistory.
During his political career, he was splashed in the Punic case of political corruption by him to improve his image on the Internet. Finally, in April 2021, the then judge in charge of the case, Manuel García-Castellón, and two other positions of his party in this municipality.
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However, this was not his only problem with justice. In April 2023, Torró was and six and a half years of disqualification for embezzlement in the Case Tele 7the television of the City of Gandia. The now deceased then saw “clearly a ugly intentionality and manipulation” for the moment in which the sentence had been published, a month and a half of local elections. In addition, in December 2023, the Supreme Court rejected the appeal that Torró had filed against another 2022 ruling of the Court of Accounts that he forced to consider that the payments he had made to an audiovisual company were carried out in an improper and unjustified manner.
Optical entrepreneur
Torró, from a humble family, controlled between 1994 and 2008 the Optical Group Masvision, a micro empire in the sale of glasses that the politician began allying with a well -known publicist from Gandia. “One imported the glasses and the other was the one that gave visibility to the business with the marketing”, Explains a Torró acquaintance. This company had more than 300 establishments in Spain and an annual turnover of 90 million. After getting rid of it, he created the Angels Fon Audiology franchise. The businessman occupied 80 positions in 45 companies, mostly dedicated to optics, according to the Mercantile Registry. In the past, the Gandia Comercial Center Center Històric (1997-2007) presided.
Sources of their surroundings point out that Torró currently had been ruined for more than a decade. The origin of its debt was the investment of several million euros in a financial product marketed by a savings bank that was fraudulent. He now lived in an attic in the center of Gandia that did not appear in his name, according to these same sources.