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Homicide, according to the Spanish Criminal Code of 1995, is a crime which contravenes the legal right to "independent human life". It is found in article 138 which states: "Whoever kills another shall be convicted of manslaughter, punishable with a sentence of imprisonment from ten to fifteen years".
There were a total of 298 homicides in Spain in 2020. [5] [1] Many terrorist attacks have occurred in Spain, the most deadly of which was the 2004 Madrid train bombings. Asturias, in Northern Spain, has one of the countries' lowest crime rates. With a population of 1 million people, it registered only 1 homicide during 2021. [6]
In the early 1980s, Spanish democracy was far from being consolidated. The failed coup d'état attempt on 23 February 1981 made evident the discontent which existed among some high-ranking military officials [1] about the economic and political crisis that the country was suffering, as well as the numerous attacks by ETA against members of the army, National Police Corps and Civil Guard.
Colombia, in particular, saw an increase in its homicide rate from 23,4 to 25,4 between 2019 and 2022, which the document attributes to the “record-breaking” levels of coca cultivation in the ...
Francisco Javier Martínez Broch: Convicted on 1 June 2021 for the murder of his parents and his brother. [31] Juan Francisco López Ortiz: Convicted on 8 June 2021 for the kidnap, rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl in Vilanova i la Geltrú, Catalonia in 2018. Received an additional seven-year sentence for the sexual offences and was made to ...
April 20, 1997: Murder of Eva Blanco: Spanish high school student was murdered in Algete, Community of Madrid. The case remained unsolved until 2015. October 9, 1999: Murder of Rocío Wanninkhof: a Dutch-Spanish teenager who was murdered in her hometown of Mijas.
Asunta Basterra was born Fang Yong in 2000 in Yongzhou, Hunan, China.At nine months old she was adopted by Alfonso Basterra Camporro (born 1964) and María del Rosario Porto Ortega (1969–2020), an affluent Spanish couple from Santiago de Compostela, Galicia. [8]
The murder of Rocío Wanninkhof occurred on 9 October 1999. Wanninkhof, a 19-year-old Dutch-Spanish woman, disappeared in Mijas, Málaga, Spain, a town located on the Costa del Sol. Three weeks later, Wanninkhof's stabbed and partially decomposed body was found.