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A 29-year-old woman was stabbed to death in the Usera district of Madrid in the early hours of Monday 30 December 2024. Officers called to a fourth-floor flat at about 02:00 found her with knife wounds to the neck and right armpit, and paramedics could only confirm her death at the scene. Her former partner, a 60-year-old man, had fled the flat and was arrested nearby a short time later. A restraining order protecting her from him was in force at the time, imposed after several complaints of abuse, and she had been placed at the highest police alert level after three such complaints. Neighbours said they had heard arguments between the couple. According to the first enquiries she had asked him to stop harassing and threatening her, and he had not accepted the end of the relationship. The government delegation against gender-based violence confirmed the killing as a case of gender-based violence; she was the 47th woman killed in Spain that year in such circumstances, and she left a young daughter. The trial opened at the Provincial Court of Madrid on 11 September 2026 with the selection of a jury and the parties' opening statements, the accused being due to give evidence the following Monday. It is the third trial he has faced in connection with the same woman, having already been convicted of threats and of assaults against her. Counsel for the family told the court they would seek compensation from the State for failing to monitor her protection correctly, addressing the claim to the Ministry of Justice and, where appropriate, the Ministry of the Interior, and bringing a civil action against the Government if the administrative claim went unanswered.
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- incident_date corrected from the article date 2026-09-11 to 2024-12-30, the night of the killing, and the slug updated to match; the filename is left unchanged per the archive convention. Coordinates moved from the Madrid centroid to the Usera district. victim age_range set to 20-30 and sex to F. judicial_status raised from alleged to charged.