Yesterday morning, the National Police arrested a 26-year-old man as the alleged perpetrator of the stabbing death of Tatiana Beatriz, 25, and Abril, their five-year-old daughter , in the Madrid neighborhood of Carabanchel. They found the man in a serious condition with a wound to the neck at the same address where the body of the girl was, since, apparently, he tried to commit suicide with the bladed weapon with which he allegedly committed the double crime . They found the young woman's body in the parking lot. Apparently, he killed her first and then went up to the floor where the girl was.
If the sexist nature of the crime is confirmed, Tatiana Beatriz would be the 53rd victim since the beginning of the year (after another crime on Saturday), and Abril, the second victim of vicarious violence in 2023.
The case is particularly hard, as the young woman was registered in the VioGèn police system after reporting her partner. The Police described this case as high risk, which is why it had very high protection measures. But the court of violence against women number 4 in Madrid withdrew on October 30, 2020 the protective measures imposed a month and a half earlier by another court on the murdered woman.
In this sense, sources from the Superior Court of Justice of Madrid (TSJM) have detailed that the protection was ordered on September 15, 2020 by a court in Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid) following the complaint filed by the victim for the assault committed by his alleged killer on September 6 and another in July.
But when the court specialized in violence against women studied the case, it decided that there were no "indications that, in July and in a discussion without witnesses, the investigated had assaulted the complainant, without there being any objective injury either to the attendance report of the alleged incident”.
It also found no evidence of “simultaneous threats with knives” on Sept. 6, so it denied the protective order because “the objective situation of risk required by law was not presented,” as it was “ an isolated event", and that the woman, "following the advice of her father, who lived there", did not report it in principle.
She filed the complaint a week later and, as she explained to the court of gender violence in Madrid and is recorded in the interlocutory, "it was not to protect herself, but to try to prevent the suspect from taking her daughter in Peru, since in those days she learned that he intended to return to his country and was afraid that he might take the girl with him".
Once the protection measures were lifted, the criminal proceedings continued and the man was acquitted in December 2022 at the trial for injuries and abuse in the family, given that there was no evidence to substantiate the accusation.
The criminal court number 37 of Madrid handed down the verdict of acquittal, since during the trial the complainant said that she did not remember what had happened, there were no witnesses to attest to the assault and the policeman who arrested the accused explain that he only told her that they had argued.
And that's how it all ended. Yesterday, this 25-year-old woman and her daughter lost their lives savagely.
