{"id":56037,"date":"2026-07-16T14:07:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T14:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/56037\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T14:07:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T14:07:16","slug":"valencia-gender-based-violence-man-breaks-into-ex-partner-home-and-attempts-to-strangle-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/56037\/","title":{"rendered":"Valencia gender-based violence: man breaks into ex-partner home and attempts to strangle her"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">An alleged abuser has violated a restraining order up to eight times, most recently in mid-June, when he attempted to strangle his ex-partner after threatening her with a knife during a break-in at her home in Torrent (Valencia). <\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surinenglish.com\/spain\/one-man-and-women-were-killed-partner-20260327145338-nt.html\" target=\"_self\" data-voc-vtm-id=\"in-text-traffic\" data-mrf-link=\"www.surinenglish.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">gender-based violence<\/a> court has ordered his pretrial detention due to the repeated violations and the risk to the victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">The National Police arrested the 36-year-old man after he threaten to kill his ex-partner with a knife. According to sources at the Valencia police headquarters, it had become a regular occurrence for the detainee to approach his ex-partner&#8217;s home despite a restraining order in place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">The latest of these breaches occurred in the early hours of the morning in mid-June. A call from a neighbour alerted the authorities that a woman was calling for help from her flat. <\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">Upon arrival, the police could hear screams coming from inside, prompting them to mobilise firefighters to gain access to the building due to the imminent risk to the victim&#8217;s safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">During the police operation, the assailant attempted to flee by jumping into an interior patio. The police, however, managed to arrest him there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\"> As a result of the fall during his escape, the detainee sustained several injuries and was subsequently taken to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">The police located the victim, who stated that she had had a heated argument with her ex-partner. According to her statement, the detainee grabbed her and threatened to kill her with a knife, punched her in the face and held her tightly by the neck. <\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">She also explained that when she tried to call for help from the balcony, he forced her back inside the house, where he continued to threaten her with a knife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">The subsequent investigation confirmed eight breaches of judicial protection measures this year, demonstrating a persistent pattern of non-compliance by the detainee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\">The competent court for gender-based violence cases ordered the detainee to be held in provisional detention, without the possibility of bail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"v-d-p\" style=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.surinenglish.com\/hemeroteca\/crime.html\" target=\"_self\" data-voc-vtm-id=\"in-text-traffic\" data-mrf-link=\"www.surinenglish.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Review the latest crime and judicial news reports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An alleged abuser has violated a restraining order up to eight times, most recently in mid-June, when he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[459,23361,8241,23360,20966,9824,5600,5787,2204,23362,95,2644],"class_list":["post-56037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-valencia","tag-and","tag-attempts","tag-breaks","tag-expartner","tag-genderbased","tag-her","tag-home","tag-into","tag-man","tag-strangle","tag-valencia","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}