The Civil Guard has arrested a 31-year-old man as allegedly responsible for the (Seville, 16,600 inhabitants) with signs of knife violence. The arrest occurred around 6:30 p.m. this Monday in the Andalusian capital.
The man, missing since Sunday afternoon, went to a pharmacy in Seville on Monday afternoon. There he collapsed and ended up confessing the crime to the apothecary, who called the Civil Guard immediately. “The man surrendered,” say the official sources consulted about his attitude when the agents arrived at the establishment.
The investigations focused on this man almost from the first moment. He had a rented room in the victim’s home and since the events occurred, around five in the afternoon on December 14, his whereabouts were unknown.
It was the deceased woman’s 10-year-old son who first notified his father, with whom he had arrived at the house and was outside waiting for him to come out, and he immediately called the Emergency Department, alerting him that there was a woman “injured by a knife” on Buganvilla Street in La Algaba. The authorities later contacted his current partner, who was also not in the town at the time the events occurred.
It was ruled out almost from the beginning that it was a sexist murder, although, pending confirmation by the Ministry of Equality, it could become part of, which since 2022 includes murders of women outside the sphere of the partner or ex-partner. Among them, it includes, that is, the murders of women due to an attack, of a non-sexual nature, by a man with whom they did not have a relationship or who was not a family member (such as a stranger, a co-worker, a neighbor, a friend, or an employer).
So far this year, 15 women have been murdered by men who were not their partner or ex-partner; and 87 since that accounting began.
