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Updated Saturday, February 10, 2024-02:15

  • Events Castro Urdiales' older brother confesses to the prosecutor that he killed his mother and the Civil Guard investigates whether there was abuse as the child claims

  • Castro Urdiales The children tried to escape driving the car with their mother's body inside after killing her at home

The second part of the drama that Castro Urdiales' two brothers signed on Wednesday after killing their mother appears to be equally or harder than the first because it involves the children's father and the victim's husband. The man will have to decide what to do with his 13-year-old son, the boy who - according to his 15-year-old brother's statement to the prosecutor - defended him when his mother hit him after an argument.

J.

, the oldest of the children, told the representative of the

Public Ministry

that he ended his mother's life at home by stabbing her in the neck with a knife after she attacked him forcefully, at which time his little brother tried to defend him by destabilizing him. to the woman, who fell to the ground.

That's when J. stabbed her. Her testimony before the judicial authority has opened a new thread in the Civil Guard's investigation. The boy admitted to the prosecutor that he killed his mother but accompanied his confession with a background of physical and verbal abuse in a manner, according to what he said, "usual" that the agents are going to delve into throughout. of these weeks.

The boy, judicial sources point out, assured that the insults and some blows at home were "constant." The investigation is now trying to determine if her statement corresponds to reality and whether

Silvia

, the victim, and her husband subjected their two adopted children to mistreatment.

The maternal grandmother of the minors is also a nuclear piece in the event both at the level of investigation - her testimony will help to x-ray what the family situation was and the relationship between its members - and in the future of her 13-year-old grandson who, in theory, he must return home as he is unimpeachable. The woman was the one who discovered the naked body of her daughter inside her car when she drove to the house alerted by the message from her grandchildren that there had been a robbery. After killing Silvia, her children stripped her naked and put a garbage bag on her head. The two minors went down to the garage with the body of her mother without any neighbor seeing them, put her in the back seat and started the vehicle with the idea of ​​fleeing, as this newspaper reported.

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The person who was trying to act as the driver gave an acceleration that he could not control and the car crashed against the wall. The clock passed 9:00 p.m. on Wednesday and the children's maternal grandmother called Silvia. The children took the call and told their grandmother that they had been kidnapped.

The woman, who lives next door, was alarmed. In a second communication between her grandmother and her grandchildren, the children told her that something bad had happened to her mother. The grandmother gave the notice to the Civil Guard while she was heading to the house. When she got up she saw everything was messy and full of blood. She went down to the garage and discovered her daughter already dead. The agents arrived moments later. The 15-year-old teenager has already been admitted to a juvenile center awaiting trial while his 13-year-old brother is in a primary care facility. There a multidisciplinary team will carry out an assessment and also study the family circumstances.

Once this procedure is completed, the minor must return to his or her family. A hard time, without a doubt, for his father and his grandmother. If they cannot take care of the child, they can claim that they feel incapable of taking him in, that having him around is a shock for them because they have not yet recovered from what happened.

State of shock

Then, the minor would remain under the guardianship of the autonomous community and would be integrated into a center for homeless minors or would reside in a supervised apartment. It could also be determined, if the Prosecutor's Office promoted it, that taking into account the "good of the minor, he should not be with his father," explains a lawyer consulted by this newspaper. Researchers take this part of family conflict very much into account.

Sources consulted indicate that this approach has not yet been made to the father since he remains in a "state of shock" due to the tragedy. This man was in the spotlight in the first minutes of the investigations but he was ruled out almost immediately when the agents verified that that afternoon he was working in a metallurgy factory located in Álava.

The investigators of the Judicial Police of the Civil Guard have spent the last few hours focused on the visual inspection of both the Castro Urdiales family home and the car and the garage in which Silvia was found dead. All biological samples are being analyzed to reconstruct what happened and the round of statements to the environment has already begun.