The second woman buried by this machismo 2022 on Cataloniathe eighth in Spainit was called ivet and he lived in a flat in Barcelona from which screams came almost every night. They were discussions between her and her ex-partner, Diego. Two young people in their twenties who were also parents of a 7-year-old boy. According to the neighbors, a month ago there was more than just screaming and what filtered through the walls was the sound of Diego hitting Ivet. Ivet’s sister, Claudia, assures that since the couple separated, Diego threatened her and followed her. According to sources consulted by this newspaper, Ivet and Diego were summoned this Monday in a Barcelona court to testify about a complaint filed by her. They didn’t show up. Diego killed her before. Ivet didn’t have no protection measure.
The complaint that Ivet filed against Diego was for threats. She did not verbalize before the Catalan police that Diego had attacked her. According to the sources consulted, it was the Mossos d’Esquadra who treated her who encouraged her to file a complaint against her ex-partner. The woman complied. And he introduced her. This Monday both Ivet and Diego had to go to court to ratify it. Instead of appearing in court, Diego killed her and later, in the afternoon, she turned herself in to the police.
screams every night
“They argued every night & rdquor ;, details two men who lived right next to Ivet and Diego’s home. “A month ago, it was more than an argument & rdquor ;, adds another woman who clarifies that the head of her bed rests against the wall of the couple’s dining room, and that she heard” everything & rdquor ;. That night, she sobbed asking for “the mobile & rdquor; and he answered with the question if “this was what she wanted & rdquor ;. Her neighbor interpreted that he had taken her phone by force and ventured that perhaps he intended to consult her content. Her anger continued until it became clear that he was hitting her. “I called the police and my son intervened & rdquor ;, says the neighbor, challenging her to hit him “if he was such a man & rdquor ;. Another neighbor adds that another night Ivet ended up screaming for someone to call the police and that another neighbor made that call. And according to both neighbors, the police responded to those calls and showed up at Ivet’s apartment, an eighth located at number 839 Gran Via de Les Corts Catalanes in Barcelona, next to Plaça de Glòries.
The neighbors knew Diego and Ivet only by sight. They say that they often saw him go in and out with his bicycle. They remember her going to school to drop off or pick up their son. The school, contacted by this newspaper, has refused to make a statement and has requested that it not be specified which school it is to preserve the protection of the minor. “She was a very young woman, with blue eyes and long blonde hair, reaching almost to her waist & rdquor ;, she is right to describe the neighbor who lived just below the ex-partner.
confessed murderer
Diego, after killing Ivet, appeared at a police station near the home that the couple shared in recent years. At 6:30 p.m. on Monday he entered the district headquarters of Sant Martí of the Urban Guard and confessed that he had just murdered his ex-wife. Agents of the municipal police, following her instructions, went to the flat on Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes and found her lifeless body.
The researchers of homicide group The Mossos have taken charge of the case and this Tuesday at noon they have returned to the scene in the company of the arrested person to reconstruct the crime. At 11:50 a.m. Diego arrived in a branded car. He has left the vehicle handcuffed and held by the arm of an agent. A neighbor has asked him why he had killed Ivet. Diego has looked at him without opening his mouth. The reconstruction of the crime has lasted just over an hour. At 1:00 p.m., Diego returned to the car and was transferred back to the dungeon at the Les Corts police station. From there he will go to court in the next few hours. The court investigating the case has decreed the secrecy of the proceedings and the measure has severely limited the information that official sources have agreed to provide to the press.
“I’m sorry I wasn’t there to protect you”
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Ivet’s sister, Claudia He has posted a message on his Facebook wall. “I love you so much Ivet, I never thought that this could happen. (…) I don’t understand how something like this can be done (…). I’m sorry for all our fights, for not being able to be a better sister and for not being there to protect you. Never forget that I love you with all my heart.” In statements to the EFE news agency, after participating in the minute of silence that was held in memory of Ivet in the Town Hall square and which was presided over by the mayor Ada Colau and the president Pere Aragones, Claudia explained that Ivet and Diego had separated and that, after the breakup, he had begun to threaten and persecute her. “We didn’t think it would go this far,” she lamented.
In Spain, eight women have been murdered by their partners or ex-partners this year. Since they began to be counted, in 2003, the figure has risen to 1,134. The victim who precedes Ivet died on March 14, in Ceuta. According to data from the Ministry of Equality, in Spain 84% of the victims murdered in 2020 by their sentimental partner –or by their ex-partner– had not gone to the police. Other surveys show that those who dare to ask for help take an average of ten years to do so. In the case of Ivet, who took the step of denouncing, it has not helped at all.