The National Police have arrested a man in Vigo after spraying his ex-partner with gasoline and set it on firecausing burns on 35% of his body.
The events occurred around 9:00 a.m. this Saturday at the entrance to the victim’s home, on the Valadares highway. The woman was leaving her house and the man, who he carried the flammable liquid in a bottle, He sprayed it and set it on fire. The victim has managed to put out the flames and her screams have alerted her relatives.
After that, the man, with the initials BRR and a resident of Gondomar, went to a nearby bar where, according to investigation sources, he was detained by the agents, whom he tried to attack with a beer bottle.
The victim has been evacuated to the Povisa hospital.with 35% of his body burned and, possibly, she will be transferred to the Burns Unit of the Juan Canalejo Hospital in A Coruña.
The alleged aggressor, 41 years old, has a police record for illegal possession of weapons. In 2010, the Civil Guard opened an investigation into the death of a young woman due to a gunshot in her house in Gondomar and arrested her boyfriend, who was now arrested in this case.
In that event, the young woman was found dead with a gunshot wound to the temple in the bedroom of her house.
