Catalonia Faces a New Domestic Violence Tragedy as Three Die in Rubí and Castellbisbal

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Domestic violence returns to Catalonia with another grim incident: the Mossos d’Esquadra are investigating the deaths of three people in two separate locations. In Rubí, a woman died in a residence, and in Castellbisbal, a couple was found dead in their apartment in Barcelona. After identifying the bodies, authorities uncovered a link between them: the Castellbisbal victims were a couple, and the Rubí victim was previously involved with the man found dead, who allegedly shot himself after committing the killings. This is being treated as a suspected domestic violence case with a fatal outcome.

In concrete terms, officers were alerted around 11:30 in the morning about a woman found with a gunshot wound to the face inside a Rubí home. The deceased woman’s daughter reported her mother missing and later discovered the body at the apartment. Some reports note that the victim worked in municipal facilities in the same town.

Pare down the timeline slightly, police later located the bodies of a man and a woman in Castellbisbal. Early indications point to the man as the alleged perpetrator who killed the two women and then took his own life with the same firearm. All three victims suffered gunshot wounds and other injuries to the head and body.

Investigators are collecting data around both crime scenes to determine the exact circumstances. Authorities suggest this could be a new instance of domestic violence, with the suspect allegedly killing his former partner at her Rubí residence before traveling to Castellbisbal to kill his partner in the shared apartment.

The guard on duty at the Rubí Court of Instruction No. 6 is leading the judicial delegation tasked with lifting the bodies from two locations, Rubí and Castellbisbal. Judicial sources confirm that neither of the two women appears in the system as a prior victim of gender-based violence, indicating that the suspect killed his partner and his ex-partner before taking his own life.

Police teams are inspecting both homes and have reached out to the surrounding circles of the deceased. They are also examining the weapon’s origin, though official sources emphasize that the gun could have belonged to the suspected shooter, who held a license for it.

12 victims of macho violence

Should this new case of violence against women be confirmed as a double tragedy, the two women would become the 11th and 12th female victims in Catalonia so far this year, killed by current or former partners. The most recent deaths occurred just hours apart over the weekend of July 14 and 15: on Saturday evening a man in his 80s killed his wife and then surrendered to police, and in Sabadell a 30-year-old woman was killed in front of her children at her home. The suspect was arrested later and the two assailants remain in custody.

In Sabadell, a woman died at a residence on Pajares Street after being stabbed as her children were nearby. The assailant was detained hours later, and both suspects are held in provisional custody as the investigation continues. These incidents are part of a troubling pattern that authorities are keen to break as they work with community services and victim support networks to prevent such tragedies in the future. [Source attribution: regional police reports and court statements]

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