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Fernando González de Castejón, 53-year-old Count of Atarés and Marquis of Perijá, who committed suicide on Monday after shooting his 44-year-old wife and a friend of his wife in their apartment on Calle de Serrano in Madrid,

he lacked a permit for the entire arsenal of weapons he had in his home.

In addition, some of them were in the name of another person, according to the same sources.

According to the Civil Guard, the count had never requested authorization to have a weapon in his house.

Therefore,

the registry of the Armed Institute does not contain any permit in the name of Fernando González,

despite the fact that the Police found shotguns, pistols, ammunition and a silencer in his house.

One of those weapons was the one he used to kill his 44-year-old wife and a friend of his 70-year-old wife.

Next to the two bodies, on the ground, was the pistol with which the aristocrat would have allegedly committed the double homicide and then committed suicide.

In an interview on Telemadrid, the Government Delegate stressed that

his wife Gema had not reported his alleged murderer for mistreatment and, therefore, did not appear in the VioGén system

.

Yes, she acted ex officio in 2018 the National Police for an incident, but she did not report the case.

In fact, they resumed living together that year.

However, she did have a history of domestic violence with her mother and sister, with a restraining order placed on them in 2009.

The Government delegate has confirmed that she had permission to carry none of the weapons in her home.

"The Civil Guard does not have proof of license and if it received them from an inheritance or a family donation, it has to communicate it," she has pointed out.

González has also indicated that

the National Police is also not aware of complaints from neighbors for problems of coexistence or shooting practices in the community patio,

something that some residents denounced yesterday.

The Government delegate also confirmed that it was a neighbor who saw a corpse through the window of his house yesterday morning, so he called the doorman Fernando and then the police, who entered the house.

There she found two bodies on the floor and one in the kitchen.

In the kitchen was Gema, who died from a shot that disfigured her face.

The agents took some time to identify her,

so at first they believed that she was a person from the domestic service and that the dead woman in the room could be the mother of the count because of her age, which was around 70 years.

She took care of the couple's daughter from time to time, a 10-year-old girl who was in Paris yesterday waiting to return to Spain.

She has been left in the guardianship of another family member, the Government delegate has detailed.

With this sexist crime there would be 20 women murdered by gender violence in Spain in 2022 and 1,150 since 2003. The number of orphaned minors for this type of crime would rise to 19 this year and 356 since 2013, when they began to be counted in official statistics .

Victims of sexist violence and those around them can ask for help in different active resources every day of the week and 24 hours a day: the 016 phone, the email 016-online@igualdad.gob.es and the WhatsApp channel at number 600 000 016.

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