• Events The count who killed his wife and a friend lacked permission for all the weapons he had in his house

  • Events The arsenal of the murderous count of Serrano: handguns, bows and arrows, hunting shotguns...

The body of Fernando González de Castejón, 53-year-old Count of Atarés and Marquis of Perijáa, who committed suicide on Monday after shooting his partner and a friend of hers, will not be watched over by his family, with whom he had almost no relationship

due to inheritance problems

.

His closest relatives decided yesterday to transfer him to the El Escorial cemetery for cremation without going through the funeral home.

However, late on Tuesday afternoon, the judge disallowed the transfer of the lifeless body of the aristocrat to the crematorium and will only allow his burial.

He will, therefore, be taken to the cemetery for his burial, to which very few people will attend, according to one of the Count's relatives to the employees of the funeral company.

The little affection of his family contrasts with the popularity he had in the Serrano area, where he lived and where he distributed cards with his noble title to dozens of people, according to funeral sources.

"He was an endearing and very nice guy," explained yesterday the owner of a bar on Calle de Serrano, where he spent a lot of time before going home to sleep.

Yes, the lifeless bodies of the two women allegedly murdered by Fernando González will be veiled together in the same funeral home in San Isidro de Carabanchel.

The corpses of Gema Jiménez, the 44-year-old partner of the count, and of Julia Cuevas, a friend of the wife, 70,

will be transferred today, Wednesday, to the San Isidro funeral home to be watched by their relatives in adjoining rooms.

The autopsy carried out yesterday at the Institute of Legal Medicine of Valdebebas revealed that the count was not angry with any of the two people he murdered.

According to the police reconstruction, Fernando González

first shot his wife, Gema, at point-blank range in the head

after an argument in the kitchen.

His wife's friend, Julia Cuevas, was startled when she heard the shot.

She went to the room where Fernando had gone.

In that room, the 70-year-old woman received another shot in the head.

The count then killed himself with another shot to the mouth using the same weapon.

The count in his house had an arsenal of firearms and shotguns without having a license for their possession and use.

Although several friends initially indicated that he had the permit in order

, the Civil Guard verified that the National Registry of Weapons does not show that the aristocrat had at any time had a license to possess any type of weapon.

In addition, among the arsenal that he had in the apartment where the events occurred, the Police found pistols with a silencer, a device whose use is prohibited in Spain, bows, crossbows and daggers.

The delegate of the Government, Mercedes González, confirmed yesterday that she did not have permission for any of the weapons in his home and that if she "he received them from an inheritance or a family donation, she had to communicate it."

The count had a collection of small arms exposed in a cabinet in his living room, where his body and that of his partner's friend, 70 years old, were found.

There was also an old armor.

In the same room a military cross with a swastika in the center was displayed.

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.

The agents also found in a room of the home

a box with handgun ammunition, a military uniform and a flag with the pre-constitutional shield hanging on the wall.

Mercedes González also indicated yesterday that the National Police did not have complaints from the count's neighbors for problems of coexistence or shooting practices in the community patio, something that some residents denounced yesterday.

According to the tenants of the building at number 205 Calle de Serrano, the count

practiced shooting in the courtyard of his building, shooting at a target and a drum.

.

In addition, other neighbors pointed out that on some occasion he had gone out into the street carrying a hunting shotgun on his back.

The matter had been discussed at a meeting of the neighborhood community and on two occasions one of the tenants called the police to denounce the count's shooting practices.

he without filing any complaint at the police station against Count Fernando González for the use of weapons in common areas of the farm.

According to the Government delegate,

the murdered woman had not denounced her husband for mistreatment, as was initially indicated

, 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.

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 count and his wife had a 12-year-old daughter who at the time of the events was on a trip to which her mother had also attended, but she returned to Madrid ahead of time.

Specifically, the woman returned to the capital on Saturday, since she became ill and preferred to be seen by a doctor in her neighborhood.

The murdered woman had no siblings and her youngest has remained, for the time being,

in the care of her maternal grandmother.

Conforms to The Trust Project criteria

Know more

  • National Police

  • Civil Guard

  • Justice

  • ERTE