After eleven o’clock this morning, the Mossos d’Esquadra arrested Alex BG, the 27-year-old man of Spanish nationality who also injured the mother last morning and fled from his home in Bellcaire as the alleged murderer of his 5-year-old son. d’Empordà (Girona), a small town of just over 700 inhabitants. The two victims had stab wounds. The Criminal Investigation Division (DIC) of Girona is investigating the events as a case of sexist vicarious violence. The woman has been transferred by ambulance to the Josep Trueta Hospital in Girona where, according to the center, she is admitted in critical, stable condition and with a reserved prognosis.
Sources close to the investigation explain that shortly after five in the morning a resident of Bellcaire d’Empordà alerted the Emergency Department that a woman wounded by a knife and bloodied had knocked on her door asking for help for her and her son. Immediately, several teams from the Emergency Medical System (SEM) went to the scene, treated the woman on the street, in a state of shock, and entered the house where they found the child in bed with several stab wounds. They tried to save his life without success. The woman, 29 years old, of Spanish nationality and a worker at a chicken roaster in the town of l’Escala, was taken to the hospital.
Investigators and Scientific Police agents began the Police Technical Ocular Inspection (IOTP) of the home shortly after, collecting all types of evidence and indications to clarify what happened. At the same time, several patrols began the search for the fugitive. Around eleven in the morning this Wednesday, a Mossos patrol from the La Bisbal d’Empordà police station found the man walking along the road in the neighboring town of Albons, in the direction of Bellcaire.
They asked for reinforcements and several police units of agents from the La Bisbal Investigation Unit attended. They ended up arresting him at number 22 Carrer de la Creu, an area surrounded by fields, in front of a rural tourism farmhouse. The suspect, equipped with a jacket from the company where he works, responded when asked about the murder weapon that had been disposed of in the countryside. However, in the search they carried out, they found the blood-stained utility knife with which he would have attacked his family.
Police car carrying the detainee, on April 3, 2024, in Albons (Girona). Marta Rodríguez
According to the first investigations, the couple, who had lived at number 17 Ter Vell Street for about three years, were separating; a circumstance that, like a complaint or a judicial process, can increase the risk of an escalation in violence since it is a moment in which aggressors feel the loss of control over their partners.
A friend and neighbor, Assumpció Prats, says that on Sunday, the couple and the child—the little one was going to her granddaughter’s class—were eating at her house and her son spent hours talking with both of them about the future of their relationship. However, according to Prats, the situation between them had worsened in recent days and this would have led to Alex BG not having slept last night in the house they shared.
The statements that the police have taken from his father, friends and neighbors have led to the hypothesis that Alex BG was with a friend on Tuesday afternoon, spent several hours in the early morning talking to his father and finally took him in the van. work—he has neither a car nor a driving license—and went home, where his partner and son were sleeping. Shortly before five in the morning he murdered his son, who was in bed, wounded the mother and fled with her father’s vehicle while she went out to call the neighbor across the street asking for aid.
Investigators suspect that he left with the van and abandoned it at one point, for reasons that are still unknown, in Albons. It was there that around eleven o’clock a patrol stopped him while he was walking again in the direction of Bellcaire. Shortly after, the abandoned vehicle was located. Alex BG was taken to the La Bisbal police station until mid-afternoon this Wednesday when he was transferred back to the family home to reconstruct the events with the judicial delegation, where he admitted having attacked the mother – he explained that After the initial attack on his partner, he attacked her again, hitting her—but he has not taken responsibility for the murder of his son.
The Investigative Court 1 of that town has taken charge of the case, which has decreed the secrecy of the summary. The City Council has called on residents to hold a minute of silence at seven this afternoon in Plaça Comtes d’Empúries and has declared three days of official mourning.
The mayor, Josep Molinas, wanted to denounce some “very unpleasant” events. “We are dismayed,” he said. Furthermore, he has reported that a series of psychological care protocols have been activated to care for the family and friends of the victims and also at the school, a small rural school with fifty students where the murdered child attended. Some of the woman’s friends, very affected, have brought white candles, flowers and other objects in front of the house to remember the child. He is the fifth victim of sexist vicarious violence so far this year, and the number has risen to 54 since statistics began to exist, in 2013.
Telephone 016 assists victims of sexist violence, their families and those around them 24 hours a day, every day of the year, in 53 different languages. The number is not registered on the telephone bill, but the call must be deleted from the device. You can also contact them by email at [email protected] and by WhatsApp at 600 000 016. Minors can contact the ANAR Foundation by calling 900 20 20 10. If it is an emergency situation, You can call 112 or the National Police (091) and Civil Guard (062) telephone numbers. And if you cannot call, you can use the ALERTCOPS application, from which an alert signal is sent to the Police with geolocation.