Hayat means “life” in Arabic.. His ex-partner, 44 years old and of Moroccan origindecided that this hard-working woman with a desire to excel could not continue with a dignified existence in the land that welcomed her and that with her efforts she could raise her four children. Hayat was assassinated on the night of this Sunday, January 8, in a house in the south of Tenerife. On December 29, he filed a complaint against the aforementioned individualbut On the 30th, in her appearance before the Court for Violence against Women number 1 in Arona, Hayat accepted her right not to testify against her former husband..
The person fatally stabbed he assured before the judge that he was not interested in adopting any measure against the man accused of his death today Y waived any criminal or civil action that may correspond to himaccording to the Information Office of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC). The case was archived. And the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande Marlaska, expressed himself along the same lines.
Nevertheless, a police officer registered his case as medium risk of special relevance in the Gender Violence System (Viogen), so the victim had to receive periodic follow-up by phone to find out what circumstances she was in.
In Armeñime, Adeje
The events occurred around 11:07 a.m. in a flat located in José Espronceda street, in the Armeñime neighborhood, in the municipality of adeje. The woman, also of Moroccan origin, had two children, ages 16 and 15, from a previous romantic relationship, as well as another boy and a girl, around six years old, with the alleged perpetrator of her intentional homicide.
The person involved allegedly used a large knife, about 40 centimeters long and 30 blade, according to some witnesses, to kill Hayat. One of the injuries occurred to her side and presumably, based on the preliminary autopsy report, she was fatally necessary.
The eldest son of the victim, aged 16, suffered minor cuts to his hands when trying to prevent the attack on his mother. Supposedly, the other teenager was also awake, while the two young children were asleep at the time. The woman managed to get down from the second floor where she lived to the street and began to ask the neighbors for help, shouting “ambulance!” or “police!”.
A neighbor manages to intercept it
One of the residents in the area observed that the alleged perpetrator also left the building and began to run to escape. Said witness managed to intercept it. Later, another neighbor also helped him with the retention. Both lowered him to the ground for about 20 minutes, until the Adeje Local Police patrol that was on duty at the time of the events arrived. The municipal agents arrested the North African individual and put him in the official vehicle.
When he was stuck on the ground, The now defendant told one of the neighbors that they were hurting him and that if they could reach his glasses, that they had fallen.
Later, one of the intervening neighbors requested the activation of a medicalized ambulance, since the injuries seemed very serious at first glance. Other residents in the area, of Cuban origin, threw a pillow at those who assisted her so that she could rest her head. And those who were next to her tried to plug her wounds.
He wanted to move to Madrid
The woman fell first on the sidewalk of a nearby portal. The health personnel of the Canary Emergency Service (SUC) tried to perform resuscitation maneuvers, but these were unsuccessful and the doctor could only certify Hayat’s death. On this Monday morning, some blood stains were still visible on the sidewalk.
Hayat had been living in Adeje for several years. Before her in Armeñime she lived in other places, like Tijoco, for example. According to a woman who was a colleague of his in the same company, the victim worked in a hotel in Playa Paraíso, also in Adeje. In said establishment he was part of the room cleaning service. But, in her desire to excel, she studied languages and at the moment she was assigned to the reception of said business for approximately a year.
A few days ago I had told this ex-work colleague that his intention was to leave, after the holidays, with his sister, who lives in Madrid. According to the sources consulted, Hayat had no relatives in Tenerife.
This former co-worker defines the victim as “a love, a beautiful person”. She dressed like a western woman and liked to take care of her appearance, both when dressing and taking care of her hair. However, at her work she didn’t usually talk “about her things” about her.
For this source, the alleged perpetrator of the homicide he was “little worker” and “very jealous”. Another neighbor assured that they had supposedly been separated for years, but that the man arrested today used to frequent the house where Hayat and her children lived.
Another neighbor, Ramón, was lying next to his wife and heard “terrifying screams” in the street. He defined the alleged perpetrator as an individual with a slim complexion. This witness pointed out that several days ago they also heard screams and fights in the apartment where Hayat and her children lived, supposedly for serious differences with the now accused.
Assistance from Adeje Town Hall
Since early Monday morning, resources from the Adeje City Council transferred the four minors to a shelter resource from the Ministry of Social Rights of the Government of the Canary Islands. The mayor of Adeje, José Miguel Rodríguez Fraga, explained to those other four victims “Nobody can solve” the experience “of having lived through a situation as traumatic and painful as this one.”
The councilor assured the media that the municipal administration and the Local Police had no evidence that the woman was a victim of gender violence, since the complaint and the subsequent procedure for integration into the Viogen system were processed through of the Civil Guard.
Rodríguez Fraga did state thate Hayat was a user of the Social Services of the consistory in the field of social emergency, that is, to receive help for herself and her four children.
The mayor of Adejero participated, together with other councilors and staff of the corporation, in the minute of silence held at 12:00 p.m. this Monday in front of the City Hall to “express rejection of any type of violence, especially this, which this week we are experiencing in a dramatic way throughout the country”. In the opinion of Rodríguez Fraga, after the four cases of deaths due to sexist violence in one weekend, “something is not working and something will have to start being reviewed.”
For the councilor, in Adeje there is “a complex society, obviously, multicultural.” At once, expressed “the pain” suffered by the residents of Adeje for this type of situation and, especially, to those who live in Armeñime.
