Police tracing suspect after pregnant woman’s throat slit on Costa Blanca

NATIONAL POLICE officers on the Costa Blanca are tracing a suspect in connection with the slitting of a 36-year-old pregnant woman’s throat in Xativa.

Police launched the search for Romanian national Isabell Elena Raducanu’s killer after her partner found her body after he returned home from work on Tuesday at around 4pm. She was six months pregnant at the time of her death, according to police sources.

Declaració institucional de l’Ajuntament de Xàtiva amb motiu de l’assassinat d’Isabell Elena Raducanu pic.twitter.com/6MlTn3t7Ux

— Ajuntament de Xàtiva (@Xativa) June 12, 2019

Juan Carlos Fulgencio, acting government representative in the Valencia Region, said police were processing leads in the case and added the killing is a suspected crime of passion.

Rosa Moreno Fernandez, one of Raducanu’s neighbours, reportedly told police she heard an argument in the 36-year-old’s home around an hour before her body was found.

Xativa declared a day of mourning yesterday (Wednesday) and the town’s council has condemned the killing.

⚫️Concentració a la porta de l’Ajuntament de Xàtiva en condemna per l’assassinat de la veïna Isabell Elena Raducano, i on s’ha llegit una Declaració Institucional consensuada i en nom de totes les forces polítiques. Descansa en pau, veïna.#NiUnaMenys pic.twitter.com/4L4Bpzrqt4

— Ajuntament de Xàtiva (@Xativa) June 12, 2019

Xativa Mayor Roger Cerda said: “We must continue working for policies to combat violence against women to end this scourge.”

The investigation and search for the killer continues.