The Investigating Court number 3 of Torremolinos (Málaga) has opened proceedings against the detainee for allegedly stabbing his partner last Wednesday in this municipality on the Costa del Sol, Marco R., in relation to the disappearance in 2014 of a young Italian woman of Albanian origin living in Spain, Sibora Gagani, with whom he had had a sentimental relationship.

The Court of Torremolinos requested the inhibition of the Investigating Court number 1 of Malaga, which had begun the investigation at the time of the disappearance of Sibora, a request for inhibition that was accepted by the judicial body of the capital.

As a result of the initiation of the aforementioned proceedings, the Torremolinos Court carried out this Monday afternoon the entry and search of the house that the alleged murderer and the disappeared woman had shared in this town on the Malaga coast. This information was initially mentioned by the detainee himself while he was in the presence of the police, although later, in the formal statement he made before the Police and in court, he would have refused to ratify this information, as confirmed by sources close to the case.

Mark R. entered provisional prison, communicated and without bail last Saturday by order of the Investigating Court number 3 of Torremolinos for the alleged murder of Paula M. C., who had been his partner and with whom he continued to live at the same address at the time the fatal stabbing occurred.

The crime of Paula, who was 28 years old, would be the first sexist murder so far this month in Andalusia but the fourth in Spain. A few hours after his death, the investigators arrested the man who until then had been his partner as the alleged perpetrator of the murder, a man of Italian nationality whose data appears in the Comprehensive Monitoring System in cases of Gender Violence (VioGen).. The alleged perpetrator of the crime had several previous complaints of sexist violence due to two previous relationships, although not the victim's, one of which would have even required the adoption of precautionary removal measures by the authorities.

The deceased and her alleged attacker were not registered as a couple in the VioGen System, as later confirmed by the Government Sub-delegation, but she had already suffered ill-treatment with another couple in the past and had filed a complaint for it. , so he was also listed as a victim in the VioGen registry.

Shortly after the tragic news of Paula's murder was made public, the relatives of Sibora -who today would be 31 years old- began to suspect the man with whom the young woman had left Italy and with whom she had had a relationship as a couple, Marco R., and they did not hesitate to openly point to the now detained for the disappearance of Sibora.

While residing in Spain, the young woman called herself Simona Faraone and used false Italian documentation since her residence permit in Spain had expired, which would complicate her chances of leaving and entering the country..

This issue, together with the fact that the disappeared woman told her mother that her partner had treated her badly and that her then-boyfriend called to say that Sibora had returned to Italy leaving all her belongings behind, cast doubt among those closest to the Italian woman who never returned with her loved ones and whose mobile phone stopped giving a signal the same day she was last seen, July 7, 2014.

The arrest of Marco R. for the murder of Paula and its possible link to the disappearance of Sibora opens a new line of investigation and the relatives of the young Italian could now be closer to finding an answer to the questions about her whereabouts during these nine years or because he had not contacted his relatives in all this time.