• Background: The assailant had a restraining order for mistreating her and her daughter
  • Crime: A man slams his partner in Dénia in the presence of the youngest daughter of both

Premeditated, in the middle of the night and by surprise, while his victim was sleeping. This is how the man who killed his former partner in Dénia on Tuesday morning slaughtered her, slaughtering her with a butcher knife with which he cut an artery.

The alleged murderer is a 55-year-old man of Russian origin who weighed a restraining order from his victim, a 44-year-old woman of the same nationality . The daughter of this - fruit of her relationship with another couple - only 11 years old, was also in the house.

The investigation indicates that the now detained had bought both the knife with which he committed the crime - "cutter" type - and a two-meter three-meter ladder with which he accessed the balcony on the first floor. From there he ascended to the gallery of the victim's house, on the second floor of a building in this town of Alicante, where they had lived for quite some time, police sources said.

Once in the gallery, the man forced the door and entered the house . When he reached the bedroom, he told the girl to go out and tell the police , something the girl did. In fact, it was his desperate screams in the early morning that alerted the building's neighbors .

Speaking to Efe , a neighbor from the same landing on the second floor occupied by the victim explained that in the middle of the night he heard that the girl was shouting "He wants to kill us, he wants to kill us!"

Already without the presence of the young woman, the man pounced on his ex-partner and attacked her "brutally", using the gun to slaughter her .

Police said yesterday that the knife "was new", even "with the case to buy it the same day . " " He thought about it yesterday [on Monday] and bought everything for this execrable and horrible crime, " explained the same sources, who added that the woman lost her life in the act.

The victim had "resistance cuts" in her left hand , although sources of the investigation believe that she had virtually no choice because the aggressor "caught her sleeping."

The man waited at the house for the arrival of the Police after slaughtering his ex-wife, so the agents also seized the murder weapon. It is expected that, whether or not he confesses to the agents, this Wednesday will surely go to court.

The alleged aggressor was already arrested on February 25 for sexist violence, specifically for mistreating the victim and his daughter twice. On him weighed a restraining order that he had broken, as another court investigated.

The fatality victim was included in the Viogen gender violence follow-up system, and his case was valued as "medium-grade risk" , as reported by the Government Delegation in the Valencian Community.

The subdelegate of the Government in Alicante, Araceli Poblador , said, during a rejection concentration, that this cataloging involves a follow-up of the victim, random surveillance and monitoring of Social Services and 24-hour Women's Center. "I think the system has not failed," said Poblador although he acknowledged that it did "some spring," which is being "evaluated today," he said.

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