A 23-year-old man stabbed and killed an 11-year-old boy this Thursday afternoon in a cultural center in a municipality on the outskirts of Madrid. According to preliminary reports, the attack occurred in the institution’s bathrooms, the attacker suffers from an autism spectrum disorder and was arrested hours after the murder. This Friday, the Civil Guard confiscated notes and messages from the victim and friends that said: «If you don’t grant me love, I’m going to unleash anger.»
The community of Villanueva de la Cañadaa town almost 30 kilometers west of Madrid, was left under deep consternation this Thursday afternoon, when a heinous crime was revealed in a cultural center. It was around 7:45 p.m. when David P., an 11-year-old boy from a family of Romanian origin, left his English reinforcement class at that cultural-educational institution and went to the bathroom, where a violent end awaited him, at the hands of Julio B., a young man of Peruvian nationality.
There, the man struck repeated stab wounds to the chest, neck and backleft him dying and then escaped. David was found by a police officer who was not on duty at that time and they came to medically assist him at the scene while he was undergoing cardiorespiratory arrest, although in particular the Summa 112 team managed to refer him to the 12 de Octubre Hospital in Madrid, already stabilized from the arrest, although when he arrived at the health center he finally died.
The police authorities They managed to track down and arrest the murdererwho was later identified as Julio B., of Peruvian nationality and 23 years old. The Civil Guard brought him to justice. The newspaper El País reported that the man He was placed under medical custody in a psychiatric unit. from the Hospital of Móstoles, given that he suffers from an autism spectrum disorder. Among other expertise, an attempt is made to discern the degree of imputability.
This Friday it took place a minute of silence at the town hall of Villanueva de la Cañada and in the Plaza de España, in which part of the murdered child’s family and other friends of his participated. «It is the most difficult day since I have been mayor. What was unthinkable has happened and we still cannot believe what happened,» said Luis Manuel Partida, community leader. The victim’s friends, for their part, pointed out to the local press the possibility that the murder was part of a fight between him and the aggressor.
However, new clues have emerged in the last hours of this Friday, when the Civil Guard collected as evidence notes and messages that Julio B., the murderer, sent to the victim and his friends: «I don’t want to be a burden. I don’t want to hurt my friends.»he points out in one of them. In another, however, he was more specific: «If you don’t grant me love, I’m going to unleash anger.»
The attacker’s mother pointed out, in dialogue with RTVE, that her son «suffers from a 70 percent disability, grade 3 autism,» and that he used to hang out with children younger than him «because «His brain is that of a child.». He apologized to the victim’s mother through tears.
One of David’s colleagues told ABC that the situation had escalated in recent months. According to the witness, the boy David had confided in him: «[Julio] He wants to be my boyfriend or something. He has painted our initials, ‘J and D’, on the walls of the town hall.» Also that his mother would have prohibited him from continuing to have contact with Julio. This Friday they mourned David in the town hall of Villanueva de la Cañada, where his initial is painted next to that of the person detained for his murder.
