Commotion in Spain: two children are murdered and their parents arrested – 15/03/2019

María Gombau, a Valencian (28 years old) and a man of Belgian nationality are currently detained for murder. The victims are their own children. Children aged 3 years and 5 months were found dead Thursday night and buried in the patio of their home.

On Monday, the minor's grandmother called the local police Godella warn of the bad situation in which the family was. "Two patrols went to the house where they lived illegally and found that "Parents and children were fine" and they considered that it was "a conflict related to the extended family", that is to say with the mother of Gombau and the children's grandmother " , said the government delegate in the region, Juan Carlos Fulgencio, at a press conference.

Faced with this response, the children's grandmother continued to alert social services. But on Thursday, it is the neighbors themselves who called the police saying that they had heard screams in the house where the family lived.

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According to Fulgencio, "according to some testimonies, we know that the mother had run out of the house, naked and with blood stains on her body, " said the official, stating that a police device comprising up to 110 police officers had been quickly deployed, which ultimately allowed to find the hidden mother not far from home, while the father remained at home but had given inconsistent answers.

The mother, who would suffer from psychiatric problems, did not cooperate in the early hours of her detention and spoke of "her children must be resurrected," according to the government delegate.

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Eventually, Maria helped the agents and she indicated where the children were buried, one at 150 meters from the house and the other at 75 meters. "It is confirmed that they are the two missing children," Fulgencio said.

According to El País, María Gobau belonged to a wealthy family of Rocafort and, from a very young age I had opted for an alternative way of life. His partner had worked as a kitchen badistant in several bars in the same city. In one of these establishments, he was fired about a month ago for his lack of punctuality.

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Sources told the Spanish newspaper that both María, as a partner, used drugs and suffered from psychiatric problems. This Thursday, during the interrogation, full of contradictions and nonsense, the woman came to talk about the possibility of resuscitating her children and made some allusions to extraterrestrials.

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The father of the children, after being arrested, told the investigators that his partner had tried to drown the children Wednesday night in the midst of a heated argument.

The boy, aged three and a half, went to Rocafort Public School. Municipal sources said that in mid-February, the mother had telephoned the center to tell them that they were going to change schools. At school, they replied that this procedure was personal and that they had to sign certain documents. The same sources indicate that parents did not formalize these efforts, but they did not bring the children to school either.

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The family lived irregularly for more than 4 years in a house in the town of Godella, on the outskirts of Valencia, the third largest city in Spain. "The house was occupied before, but the owner evicted the inhabitants who, in retaliation, burned most of the house.These years, the father of the children has not stopped repairing it and letting it go. improve, "said the neighbors to the newspaper El País.

Before settling there, the couple had lived in Belgium and went to work several times in the grape harvest in the south of France. Three years ago, the couple became interested in Rocafort's municipal grants to opt for social housing, but did not ask.

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Currently,Both parents are incarcerated in a nearby Civil Guard barracks as suspects of an "alleged murder", told AFP a source of the armed institute. It is expected that Saturday will go to court.

The autopsy of the children should be ready this Friday, but when the bodies were found, they showed signs of blows, which would in principle be the cause of death.

The children were last seen Wednesday afternoon by a family friend, who brought them food at home.

Source: AFP and El país