The Civil Guard arrested a 31-year-old man as allegedly responsible for the murder of a 44-year-old woman, whose body was found last Sunday in her house in La Algaba (Seville, 16,600 inhabitants) with traces of knife violence. The arrest took place around 6:30 p.m. this Monday in the Andalusian capital.
The man, missing since Sunday afternoon, went to a pharmacy in Seville on Monday afternoon. There he collapsed and ended up confessing the crime to the apothecary, who immediately called the Civil Guard. “The man surrendered,” say the official sources consulted on his attitude when the agents arrived at the establishment.
The investigations focused on this man almost from the first moment. He had rented a room at the victim’s home and since the events occurred, around five o’clock in the afternoon of December 14, his whereabouts were unknown.
It was the deceased’s 10-year-old son who was the first to warn his father, with whom he had arrived at the house and was waiting outside for him to come out, and he immediately called the emergency services, warning him that there was a woman “injured by a knife” on Buganvilla Street, in La Algaba. Authorities then contacted his current partner, who was also not in the city at the time of the events.
It was ruled out almost from the start that it was a sexist murder, although, pending confirmation from the Ministry of Equality, it could enter the statistics of femicides, which since 2022 include the murders of women outside the sphere of the partner or ex-partner. Among them, this includes social feminicides, that is, the murders of women due to aggression, of a non-sexual nature, perpetrated by a man with whom they had no relationship or family (such as a stranger, a colleague, a neighbor, a friend or an employer).
So far this year, 15 women have been murdered by men who were not their partners or ex-partners; and 87 since the beginning of this accounting.
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