Fernando González de Castejón, Count of Atarés and Marquis of Perijá, 53, committed suicide early Monday morning after shooting his wife Gema, 44, and a friend of his wife's, 70, to death. crime a handgun from the many pistols displayed on the altar with fascist symbology that crowned the living room of his apartment on the well-known Calle Serrano in Madrid.
In the arsenal of his 200-square-meter flat there were also
bows, arrows, hunting shotguns, combat knives, ammunition and a military uniform.
In addition, the house was decorated with photos of the dictator Franco, Adolf Hitler and there was also a painting with a military cross with a swastika in the center.
In 2018 Fernando was denounced by his wife for alleged mistreatment.
For these facts he was arrested, although at present the case was not active and there was no judicial order in force because
she had withdrawn the complaint shortly after and they had continued living together.
In 2009 he was denounced for mistreating his sister and his mother and then a restraining order was imposed on him.
"We knew this was going to happen
. "
They were the first words of some relatives of the family who came to the area cordoned off by the Police around the portal, worried about the youngest daughter that the count and his partner had in common.
However, the girl was not at the scene of the double crime, she had stayed in Paris until Monday after spending a few days at Euro Disney.
More friends of the couple came to Calle de Serrano, confirming that
the relationship between the count and his wife had deteriorated a lot in recent weeks.
They also confirmed that, fortunately, her daughter returned from France yesterday and that she was not at home at the time of the double murder.
"This doesn't make sense," a man sobbed on Calle de Serrano who remembered that he witnessed Fernando and Gema's wedding more than 10 years ago.
“They had had serious problems and many conflicts, but little by little they got over it thanks to the girl,” said another woman who, seeing the news in the press, feared that her friend might have died.
"I've called her a bunch of times and no one answers.
I'm afraid she's the one killed.
I told her not to go back to him, but she resumed the relationship
», said another woman who pointed out that neither of them worked.
"They didn't need it, they had a lot of properties," commented another close person.
Other acquaintances of Fernando maintain that in recent months he was a bit depressed and that he had lost a bit of his usual joy.
Last week, Fernando's wife left for Paris with their 12-year-old daughter.
The woman returned the day before yesterday and she went to the house on Sunday night accompanied by a 70-year-old friend fearing that she might argue with her husband again.
couple's brawl
According to the first data, the double crime occurred in the early hours of Monday after a fight between the couple, whose motives are unknown.
A neighbor of the block confirmed that they heard about one in the morning several blows and some detonations.
However, no one alerted the police, since it was common to hear such noises during the night, according to residents.
The first warning that something strange had happened was given by the doorman of the estate
when he saw from the interior patio of the building the corpse of a person in one of the rooms of the first C.
Specifically, the body of the alleged perpetrator of the death of both women was found in the living room of the home next to the body of the older victim, both with gunshot wounds.
Next to Fernando's feet was a small-caliber handgun
, which reinforces the hypothesis that after killing them he took his own life with the same gun.
A few meters away, in the kitchen, lay the body of his wife, who also had a gunshot wound to the head.
National police officers guarding the hearse in Serrano 205.JAVIER BARBANCHO
At the scene of the double crime,
the National Police did not find any handwritten notes
.
The mobile phone of the alleged murderer was also examined, which had an almost depleted battery and no threatening messages to his wife.
Fernando Miguel González de Castejón
was appointed Count of Atarés on October 10, 2012
by the then Minister of Justice, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón Jiménez.
His title was published in the Official State Gazette on October 22 of that year.
He inherited it due to the death of his great-uncle, Don José Miguel López y Díaz de Tuesta.
According to the neighbors, Fernando was a very eccentric and problematic man.
On the farm where he lived, he had arguments with many residents because he used to practice shooting in the courtyard of the building, where he would shoot from a distance of about 10 meters at a target and empty drums.
He also threatened to kill another tenant's dog because of her barking and
argued with another upstairs neighbor whom he accused of dirtying the Picasso paintings she had in her living room
.
In his social networks he had a photo of his wife, whom he would have now killed and claimed to be a lover from Spain.
In the neighborhood he was quite a "character" and during the first months of the pandemic he was a regular at street demonstrations against the Sánchez government after the confinement was lifted.
"It was common to see him walking in the front row in the afternoon with his dog and the Spanish flag during the Cayetano revolution," according to a neighbor.
The aristocrat did not work and in 2008 he created a real estate company that gave him many benefits.
He had numerous properties that he inherited from his family.
In 2015, he participated in several television debates as an affected Banco Madrid.
He was one of the clients affected by not being able to recover more than 700,000 euros that he had deposited in that financial entity after the FROB announced that he would not rescue Banco Madrid.
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