The National Police has arrested in Aldaia (Valencia) a 54-year-old man as the alleged perpetrator of a crime of ill-treatment in the family, after accessing the home of his former partner through the balcony, hanging from the roof, and trying to strangle her and explode the house by manipulating the butane cylinder.

The events occurred on Friday afternoon, about 17:30 p.m., and the agents were alerted by a call to 091, the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community reported in a statement.

The police managed to intercept a fleeing man who tried to escape by putting up a great resistance and closing the door After a brief struggle, in which the suspect hit a policeman, he was finally reduced.

The agents located a woman inside the house lying on the ground, with a bleeding wound on her right hand and complaining of severe pain in her neck.

Moments before, the suspect would have been calling insistently first to the telephone of the farm and then to the door of the home, and when he did not receive an answer, he would have taken four heights from the roof to the balcony of the house to access it, using a television antenna cable.

The victim, once he stopped hearing the knocks on the door, realized that the man was inside the home, so he tried to escape while notifying the police, being reached by his ex-partner, who began to beat her and after grabbing her arm tightly dragged her to the sofa where he pounced on her trying to strangle her.

The agents also found out that at the time of his arrival the aggressor was trying to cause an explosion by manipulating with a knife the safety valve of a butane gas cylinder to let the gas out and ignite it with a lighter.

The agents intervened the man two kitchen knives, scissors and a lighter; and the victim was transferred to a health center for evaluation.

The arrested, of Spanish nationality and with a police record, has passed to the disposition of the judge, who has decreed his entry into prison.

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