The National Police has stopped at L’Hospitalet de Llobregat to a man who allegedly had kidnapped and mistreated “regularly and systematically” his 18 year old couple
In a statement on Wednesday, they explained that the investigation began after receiving an anonymous complaint stating that a man “had his girlfriend locked up, thus keeping her deprived of liberty, through violence and intimidation and threatening her and her family”.
The agents have detailed that the victim, released after the police intervention, did not have his own keys to his home and “was almost all the time locked in her room”.
“She had to ask her attacker for permission to even leave her room or go to the bathroom. In addition to the constant threats suffered, both to her and to her family, the detainee he habitually assaulted her arriving on one occasion spray his face and neck with alcoholl and then light the area with a lighter,” they added.
unable to ask for help
The agents opened proceedings to find the exact location of the victim and the alleged attacker and, on April 19, managed to locate them and arrested the man and The woman was taken to a hospital.
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At the time of the arrest, the agents verified that the man had the woman’s mobile phone in his possession, blocking so any chance of ask for help for his part and exercising “total and absolute control” over it.
On April 21, the detainee was handed over to the Violence against women court acting as guard Esplugues de Llobregatwho decreed his entry into pretrial detention without bail.