Overview
- A passerby found the injured woman on Avenida San Telmo in Palencia and alerted 112, and a Sacyl ambulance transported her to Hospital Río Carrión.
- Before being taken to the hospital, the victim identified the suspect to officers and said her children were at the shared home.
- Local Police informed the Guardia Civil after taking the woman’s statement, prompting a coordinated response to locate the suspect.
- According to the Subdelegación del Gobierno, the man barricaded himself in the victim’s home, destroyed furniture and threatened to jump from a window before National Police forced entry with a battering ram and detained him.
- Authorities say he faces charges of gender-based violence and unlawful entry, and they note similar prior police records with no current ban on contact, while reports differ on whether the assault occurred Saturday night or the intervention Sunday, 21 December.