The Tarragona Court will judge a man for allegedly killing his partner on July 30, 2021 in Cambrils, in the Baix Camp region (Tarragona).
The defendant faces 23 years in prison for allegedly suffocating the victim and punching him several times over the body after they had an argument at his home.
Specifically, the public prosecutor's office is asking for 21 years in prison for a crime of malicious murder, one year for a continued crime of breaking a sentence and another year for abuse in the family. He also claims 90,000 euros in civil liability for the dead woman's relatives.
The investigated person is in preventive detention. This Friday the popular jury will be constituted for a trial that will begin next week.
According to the prosecution's indictment, the accused and the victim had a two-year romantic relationship, which began in 2019 and lasted until July 2021. The couple shared a home in the municipality of Cambrils.
"Their relationship was characterized by great conflict, breakups, confrontations, continued discussions and mutual reproaches," says the prosecutor.
On July 19, 2021, the person under investigation attacked his partner, for which he was convicted of abuse. The ruling of the Violence against Women court number 1 of Reus prohibited him from approaching the woman within 200 meters and from communicating for ten months.
The public ministry states that the accused continued to communicate with her via telephone and messaging, with 1,649 intercommunications between July 22 and 30.
He also details that they argued near his home on the 28th of the same month. That day, in addition, the investigated person slapped the woman; she did not report it.
The discussion - according to the Prosecutor's Office - was repeated on the day of the murder when the accused went to the home, first at twelve in the afternoon and then at five in the afternoon. Then, in the middle of a new argument, the defendant hit the victim in the face, chest and extremities.
"In order to cause her death, he covered her mouth and nose, and squeezed her neck, suffocating her, causing her death from acute respiratory failure," he argues in his writing. According to the prosecution, the man took advantage of the "privacy" of her home and her physical superiority to kill her, "without the victim being able to do anything to prevent it."
The accused has been deprived of liberty since the end of July 2021. In addition, he was sentenced to four months in prison for a crime of breaking a sentence with a final sentence, issued by the Violence Against Women Court in August 2020.
For all this, the prosecutor is asking for 21 years in prison for the crime of malicious murder, as well as a ban on approaching the victim's relatives at more than 1,000 meters and communicating with them for a period of 25 years. He, in turn, considers that the accused is the author of a crime of breach of sentence and another of abuse in the family environment. For both he requests a total of two years, one year per crime.
Regarding mistreatment, he also asks for three years of deprivation of the right to possess weapons and the prohibition of communicating and approaching family members for two years. Likewise, the prosecution indicates that the aggravating factors of recidivism and relationship occur.
Regarding civil liability, the prosecutor's office demands compensation, for the moral damage caused, of 50,000 euros for the victim's sister and another 40,000 for her grandparents.
