Crime of the Civil Guard in Cuenca: the hell of Santiago between insults and screams from Paola, the murderer of his two daughters

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The investigation into the deaths of Iris and Lara, aged 9 and 11, at the hands of their mother

in the

barracks, was oriented from the beginning to the disagreements between the ex-marriage and the intransigence of the woman before the close relationship of her daughters with Santiago, her father, and his family.

In the absence of giving the last stitching, the agents focus on the fact that the motive for the filicide could be Santiago's intention to request joint custody.

After the separation two years ago and the divorce one year ago, Santiago had

with his ex-wife, whom he feared.

Therefore, they divorced by mutual agreement and custody of her went to her.

For this reason, she never contradicted him.

For this reason, he only confronted her when he had no other choice: Paola wanted to request a posting in the Civil Guard of

and having custody of her, she could take the girls without problem.

That was when Santiago stood up and began to fight to change the regime.

She, according to sources of the investigation, could not accept it.

The agents also delve into whether she suffered from

.

Santiago knew about Paola's volcanic explosions, but faced with the threat of keeping Iris and Lara away, he decided to change her servile attitude.

"She was a civil guard and he thought that anything she did or said could turn against her," sources close to the family explain.

It was he who made the decision to separate.

“She

in front of his daughters if he was a little late from work or for any problem that arose.

Santiago decided that he did not want the girls to see these scenes and left home, "they point out.

Since then, the relationship between the two has been reduced to WhatsApp messages.

They did not speak.

The paternal grandparents of Iris and Lara were in charge of taking care of them while her parents worked, with which the relationship became so close that the girls had expressed their desire to stay in their town.

They told her father, her grandparents, and her mother who, according to investigators,

. "

They also had no problem staging their emotions.

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and because we also want to spend New Year's Eve here," said one of the minors to Mari, her paternal grandmother, a few weeks ago.

At some point between last Tuesday night and early Thursday morning, Paola shot her daughters twice and then committed suicide.

The three were in the

when an agent entered the house, surprised that Paola had not shown up at her job on Thursday.

"DADDY, MOMMY IS NOT WELL, SHE YELLS AT US A LOT"

There were many occasions in which Iris and Lara transferred to Santiago and his grandparents the state of nervousness in which Paola had been in recent months.

, say family sources that the girls said when they stayed with their father and grandparents.

At Santiago's house, who lived with his parents, they remember with special pain the constant threat posed by knowing that Paola could go with the girls to Cádiz and the phrase that, according to the minors exposed on more than one occasion, their mother repeated to them in the last few months: «

.

It was what made Santiago put aside his fear of Paola and what made him quickly look for a lawyer to request a custody modification and ask for shared custody.

Paola was upset and she did not hide it.

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