The relationship had started just a few months earlier, in March, when the covid was already a real threat throughout Spain.

They met online and the confinement narrowed that chance encounter so much that Li Na, a 26-year-old girl of Chinese origin, decided to break up with her boyfriend to start a new couple's story that, finally, ended in tragedy.

Yesterday, just two weeks after they went to live together, the Police arrested Diego JR, 24, as the confessed author of the strangulation of Li Na in the bedroom they shared at number 15 of Lithographer Pascual Abad street in Valencia .

It was he himself who called the emergency phone at 5 in the morning to confess to the murder.

His family, to whom he initially turned after verifying that he had killed his partner, had recommended that he surrender to the police and he did so.

When the agents arrived at the home, he himself opened the door and accompanied them to the place where the body was found.

The assailant told the officers that Li Na had told him that he wanted to end the relationship and that he intended to return to his former partner.

At that very moment, when she picked up the phone to contact her ex-boyfriend, he pounced on her, who was sitting on the bed, and strangled her to death.

Later, when he found out that she was dead, he deposited the body on the ground and called his family to explain what he had done, according to sources from the investigation confirmed yesterday.

Her family was, in fact, who advised her to call the police immediately and confess.

No screaming or arguing

The commotion of the police cars and the judicial procession after 5 in the morning put the neighborhood on alert that something had happened in the apartment that the young couple had shared for just two weeks.

And the fact is that not even the closest residents listened to the discussion that allegedly triggered the murder.

"I have not heard anything. No screams or an argument or anything. The police have woken me up to ask me about 6 in the morning, but I have already told them that no, I was sleeping," the neighbor of the city explained yesterday to this newspaper. door where the murder occurred.

Few in the building were clear, in fact, when it came to identifying the tenants of door number 1. "Before there lived a Chinese family, a mother with two daughters, but now I do not know. They were quite hermetic and did not allow see a lot, "explained another neighbor.

In what everyone agreed, of course, is that none of the tenants of that apartment had caused any problem to the community.

Outside, on the street, the event had become the main topic of conversation and some neighbors recalled that they had seen the victim with his belongings in plastic boxes only a few weeks ago.

"I noticed because she was very young and she carried everything in those boxes that are used to store clothes. She carried many and she was alone," they indicated.

Meanwhile, the confessed perpetrator of the crime was transferred to the offices of the National Police to continue with the interrogation before being brought to justice.

The Councilor for Citizen Protection of Valencia, Aarón Cano, for his part, confirmed the new crime of sexist violence and assured that there were no previous complaints of mistreatment.

In addition, the mayor indicated that the City Council is studying bringing tributes to the victims of gender violence also to the place where the crimes have been committed as "sensitization" and so that it is seen that these events do not happen "in an ethereal way in unrecognizable spaces" rather, they pass "next to his house, in the store where he goes to buy", because it is something that "surrounds us" and "haunts" us.

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