The Police arrested two more people this Tuesday night for the death of the singer Matías de Paula on May 15 in the municipality of Villanueva de la Serena (Badajoz, 25,773 inhabitants). His arrest is added to the arrest yesterday at noon of a man who is believed to have killed Matías Corraliza Fernández, the real name of the 52-year-old flamenco singer. The three involved in the crime are family members and, for the moment, new arrests are ruled out, as reported this Wednesday by the Government delegate in Extremadura, José Luis Quintana. The representative of the regional Executive has not specified the facts attributed to the last two arrested, nor the place where their arrest occurred because the case remains secret. His appearance in court is scheduled for next Friday.
Matías de Paula from the town of Badajoz, near the house where his mother lived. The singer went out to the street, around 3:00 p.m., to meet some people who had summoned him through messages and received him with shots. He fell to the ground after being shot in the head, according to several witnesses to the event. Those involved fled the scene and since then, both the direct relatives of the victim and the alleged aggressor have not frequented the area, say several neighbors.
The first arrest came yesterday Tuesday at noon. The alleged shooter, who responds to the initials FS, was arrested in the neighboring town of Magacela, located about 13 kilometers from Villanueva de la Serena. The suspect, already identified by the police, had taken a taxi and, after a dispute with the driver, ended up stabbing him, according to sources familiar with the case. The taxi driver went to a health center and when he told what had happened to him, a joint device between the Police and the Civil Guard was activated in which they ended up arresting him.
One of the main hypotheses of the crime is the jealousy that the alleged shooter had of the relationship between his ex-wife and the singer Matías de Paula. The main suspect, with a police record for gender violence, had been released from prison a few days ago and went to meet the singer with some family members. A spokesperson for the deceased’s family explained on Monday on the Antena 3 program that Matías de Paula had had a relationship with the woman “as teenagers”, when they were 14 or 15 years old, and that she had tried to regain contact with the singer by writing to him through social networks. The family maintains that Matías de Paula had no relationship with the woman and that she left with the intention of talking to her ex-husband.
