Triple crime of Valladolid: between gender violence and drug sales

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On Saturday at noon,

, 72, ate with her husband

and other relatives at the Parrilla de San Lorenzo restaurant in

.

They were at dessert when the phone rang.

It was her daughter

.

"Mom, I'm very sick, he's hitting me," a relative reproduces the content of the call for help.

María del Carmen alerted 091 at 4:30 p.m. and went to her daughter's home, at number 32 Calle Linares.

"And we don't know anything else. According to what the

have said , she entered, saw her daughter dead, stabbed, and he must have given her

and then she was burned in the fire," says this relative. .

This is

, a 43-year-old Moroccan, married to Eva María for a couple of years, but a couple for a long time.

This is the man whom the Police are investigating as the alleged perpetrator of this double homicide, of the arson attack that broke out in the house immediately afterwards and of another identical crime that occurred just a few minutes before and 200 meters away, at 2 Calle Marqués of Santillana.

In this case, the deceased, also stabbed, also burned in an intentional fire, was

, 78, a retired ambulance driver.

Eva María's apartment, a 5 B, is sealed.

Her neighbor who lives door to door, a friend of hers, was at home when the events occurred, she even had her windows open, but she assures that she did not hear anything strange.

No discussion, no shouting, no calls for help.

"Her husband of hers is

, very polite and always very politically correct, very European in attitude," she says of Aziz.

"The day before, I went up with them in the elevator and everything was normal. He invited me to have tea, but I didn't go in because it came with dog food. I still haven't gotten the idea of ​​what happened. .."

She has never heard Aziz say a word or a bad gesture towards Eva María, she says.

The woman disagrees with the statements made by the rest of the building's residents, who claim that the now-sealed apartment received continual visits from "people with bad looks, with the appearance of drug addicts", who saw Eva María throw

out of the window

other people picked up on the street.

"People with strange looks also come to see me," she says.

Another neighbor, an older woman, tells of her suspicions: "At night you could feel the elevator going up and down, but there was no movement of people. I think they put whatever was in the elevator and lowered it."

Similar comments are collected if asked at number 2 of Marqués de Santillana, where the third crime occurred.

Carlos was "a very good person, a very good neighbor," but a few years ago he had

in his house, "he was dedicated to dealing," they say without further ado.

The house, with sealed access, where Eva María and her mother died, in Valladolid.

main hypothesis

That there could be drugs involved at first led to suspect that the crimes were due to a settling of accounts, but the investigation is now directed at gender

as the main hypothesis.

Yesterday, the twitter account of the

pointed to this line .

"We are collecting data on the murder of a 54-year-old woman in the province of Valladolid for alleged # Gender Violence. If confirmed, the number of women killed by gender violence would rise to 27 in 2022 and 1,157 since 2003," she said.

If it is indeed a case of gender-based violence, one piece needs to fit into the puzzle: the third dead, Carlos, who, according to the chronology of the events, died minutes before the two women.

"

. He came practically every day to see them with a little dog," he clarifies the relationship that Carlos had with Eva María and her husband, a neighbor of hers.

It paints the same friendly portrait of Aziz that we've heard before: "A very polite and well-groomed kid. He couldn't be nicer. 'How are you?' 'How are you?'"».

At 11 p.m., six and a half hours after the crimes were committed, Aziz went to buy

at a shop just 100 meters from his house.

"He had a queue and he took it directly from the fridge and left the money there," says the clerk, pointing to the counter.

A few minutes earlier, he had allegedly attacked two elderly couples on two nearby streets with the intention, according to the police investigation, "of entering their homes."

He was probably looking for a place to hide from the search device that had been deployed in the neighborhood, La Rondilla.

He left with the bottle of water and, already in the street, accosted the woman who came out of the store immediately after him.

She was with her two-year-old son.

"He approached me, but he didn't have time because the police just came. First

'And the man you were with?'. 'What man?'", says this witness of the arrest .

"He hid there, between two cars," he says, pointing to the corner of Góngora and Cardenal Torquemada streets.

"When the Police saw him, they pointed a gun at him, I only heard them say: 'Hands up!' I think he wanted to

, but when he saw the Police he fled. I still have the fright in my body. red shirt and shorts. There are people who say he had blood on his shoes, but I didn't see it."

Since Saturday, Aziz has been in the police cells, waiting to go

today, since 72 hours have passed since his arrest.

For now, he has refused to testify.

The Police finalized the proceedings yesterday and was still pending to clarify whether he will appear before the judge only for the attacks on the elderly or also for the triple homicide.

The event has

La Rondilla, where another crime occurred on June 30:

underage son.

It is a working-class neighborhood, but quiet and not very conflictive, so that the neighbors attribute the succession of deaths to fatality.

"I've been working here for 10 years and I've never been afraid," says the shop assistant who served Aziz.

In the entire province of Valladolid, seven violent deaths are recorded in just a month and a half.

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