Overview
- Police say she was confined for at least two weeks in an apartment in Barcelona’s Besòs neighborhood.
- The rescue followed a handwritten plea tossed from a window that a passerby found, which spurred her current partner to file a complaint.
- Investigators report the suspect seized her phone, blocked her from going to work, and twice forced her back inside after she got out.
- Mossos d'Esquadra freed the woman and arrested her ex-husband on suspicion of illegal detention, coercion and threats, and he remains in police custody.
- Police also cite threats against the woman’s current partner and relatives, and note the former couple share four children.