The National Police have arrested a 26-year-old man for allegedly attacking, threatening and abusing his partner yesterday, Tuesday May 5th. But the woman had been attacked the day before and told the medics who treated her that she had fallen down a flight of stairs. The man arrested Tuesday pulled out a serrated knife and said he was going to slit his wrists.
It happened just after 9:00 a.m. at facilities located on Calle Francisco Carratalá Cernuda in Alicante. A call warning that a man was attacking his partner promptly mobilised members of the National Police and the Local Police.
The suspected aggressor is a 26-year-old guy from Algeria who was arrested, while the 45-year-old woman from Brazil was treated by health personnel and removed in an ambulance.
Discussion
According to the data collected by the Police, the woman explained that this morning she had had an argument with her partner and the young man had grabbed her by the neck, brandishing a knife and threatening to cut his wrists, which generated moments of great tension, due to the danger that he would attack her with the knife.
The aggressor was arrested and, after seeing that the woman had scratches and bruises on her arms, the officers questioned the victim, who indicated that the injuries had been caused by the now arrested man the day before.
She was taken to a health center where she was treated for her injuries, but when the medical personnel asked her about the cause of the wounds she did not reveal the truth and said that she had fallen down some stairs.
The cause for the dispute which triggered the latest attack by the young guy who has been arrested and escorted to the National Police headquarters where proceedings are being carried out before he is brought before a judge, has not been revealed.
Complaints from neighbours
“It happened in some “unlicensed tourist apartments” and these events do not happen in isolation,” a neighbour and witness to the event informed this newspaper. “We neighbours have been suffering for some time now from constant noise, disturbances, a continuous flow of people and drug dealing inside, which is seriously affecting our peace and quiet as a result of these unlicensed apartments,” says this neighbour, who claims that they have filed numerous complaints with the Alicante City Council about this irregularity, but no action has been taken.
“We heard a lady screaming for help. I and several neighbours heard it,” he said of the attack on the Brazilian woman. A neighbour came down to help, but the man refused to open the door, stating everything was great. At last he persuaded her to unlock the door, and spoke to the pair themselves. They said they didn’t mind bruising on their face and arms, and blood on their nose.
A neighbour has filed a complaint at the Alicante duty court over the attack and to condemn the dangerous scenario they are living through with tourist homes they say are unregistered.