German dismembered in Barcelona - body parts found in dumpster
Created: 12/06/2022 11:02 am
By: Markus Hofstetter
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A German living in Barcelona kept subletting rooms in his apartment to other people.
That could have been his undoing.
BARCELONA - A week ago on Tuesday (November 29), a scrap dealer made a horrifying discovery in a dumpster on a busy street in Barcelona's posh Eixample district.
In a suitcase he discovered parts of a dismembered corpse.
According to the Spanish newspaper
La Vanguardia
, the dead man is said to be a German who has lived in Barcelona for several years.
Accordingly, the 50-year-old man lived for rent on the seventh floor of the house in front of which the container was located.
Body parts of a German discovered in Barcelona: Suspects lived with the victims to sublet
Just a few days later, on Friday December 2nd, two suspects were arrested.
It was a 31-year-old Ukrainian and a 51-year-old Irishman, said the Catalan police Mossos d'Esquadra on Monday.
The two men are said to have only recently sublet the dead man.
"Various clues were found in the apartment that link this place to a possible violent death," the police said.
The suspects are said to have put the upper body and other body parts in a suitcase and thrown it into the container.
It is not known from which region in Germany the man came.
Body parts of a German discovered in Barcelona: the victim is said to have had problems with the caretaker
The two suspects were brought before a judge on Monday.
This ordered custody for the 51-year-old, as the Catalan judiciary announced in the evening.
The younger man, who, according to
La Vanguardia
, had only been living in the house for two weeks, was conditionally released, it said.
But his passport was confiscated.
He is not allowed to leave Spain and has to report regularly to the judicial authorities in Barcelona.
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Little is known about the allegedly murdered German.
The building's caretaker told
La Vanguardia
that he was a "very discreet and kind man".
But there were problems with the property manager because he kept subletting rooms in his apartment to other people.
The discovery of the body caused great excitement and concern among residents of the street, the Spanish newspaper wrote.
After the arrests, there is relief.
For the time being, nothing was known about the possible motive for the crime.
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