Weekender Alicante North Issue 098

8 FRIday 14th June 2019 www.weekender.news
Pregnant mum in stabbing
POLICE are looking into the
private life of a woman who
was killed by having her throat
cut at her home in the inland
Valencian town of Xativa. Her
partner made the horrific discovery
on Tuesday of the body
of Isabell Raducanu, 36, who
was six months pregnant and
the mother of another child.
The unborn child did not survive
the tragedy.
The dead woman’s boyfriend
has been named as Juan Vicen-
by Simon Russell
te and police say at the moment
they have no reason to doubt
his version of events; the couple
had no history of domestic
abuse or arguments according
to friends and neighbours. He
was to be the father of the new
child and had posted images
on social media of the babies
ultrasound. Apparently, Isabell
worked as a prostitute and this
is the main line of enquiry the
authorities are working on.
They have also confirmed that
there was no forced entry to
the property indicating that the
victim willingly let her killer
into the property. An autopsy is
due to be carried out this week.
Wednesday was declared as a
day of mourning in Xativa and
a rally was held in the victim’s
memory.
The incident follows on from
the murder of a young woman
in the Valencia town of Alboraya
just a day earlier. 29 year
old Beatriz AH was suffocated
in her bed. When confronted
by the police her partner, a
48 year old Romanian national,
killed himself by jumping
from a fifth floor balcony. The
case is under investigation but
police are almost certain that
the dead man was also the killer
of his partner. However they
will still need to conduct an
autopsy and full forensic examination.
Isabell Elena Raducanu / Facebook
Water quality
improving
A major survey
by Simon Russell
carried out by the
Valencia Polytechnic Castellon and Northern
University has Alicante showed
concluded that marked improvements,
the coastal water a change largely
quality across the accredited to the new
Community has Water Framework
improved. The work Directive. The waters
studies phytoplankton in the north of both
composition, a measure Alicante and Castellon
that determines the were classified as
purity of seawater, with “very good” while
6,800 samples being those around the
taken over 64 different Alicante and Valencia
campaigns spanning port area were much
five years. Northern lower quality.
BROTHEL RAIDED
EIGHT women who
were being held captive in
by Alex Trelinski
the basement of a brothel recruited in Spain,” the
in Marbella and sexually National Police said.
exploited by a gang of “Some of them
pimps and drug dealers have voluntarily sought work
been freed by the National at the brothel while others
Police. An investigation were tricked with offers
started after a tip-off to a of work in a ‘massage
hotline, and when officers parlour’. Once there they
raided the house, they found
it was being run as a 24-
hour brothel with a bar.
They freed the eight
were subjected to a system
of fines, exhausting days
and threats.”
Police also discovered
women and arrested 21 that the women were
alleged members of a gang forbidden to leave the
led by a Portuguese family. basement and that the
“The investigation gang supplied cocaine and Officers raid brothel.
found that the women were MDMA to its customers.