The investigation of Mossos d’Esquadra that tries to clarify the deaths of Sergey Protosenyaof his wife Natalie and his daughter in Lloret de Mar (La Selva) advances without finding any evidence that points to the participation of a murderer from outside the family. Neither the visual inspection of the crime scene, nor the trail of blood spatters, nor the fingerprints, nor the autopsies point to a different hypothesis than the one the police have maintained since day one: Sergey killed his daughter, then his his wife and finally committed suicide. However, it is a double crime and subsequent suicide of the murderer that does not have a clear motive nor does it fit into the pattern that criminals tend to follow. sexist murders.
There should be no talk of vicarious violence, stress the sources close to the case consulted by this newspaper, because it occurs when the spouse kills the children with the purpose of harming the couple. This did not happen in this case because, according to all the clues, Sergey attacked the two women while they were both sleeping. That is, the mother 53 yearsdid not get to know that his daughter, of 16 years, had been murdered and, consequently, the father could not carry out this action with the intention of causing pain. He was not angry with them either but, apparently, tried to save them suffering. The agents believe that first hit with the back of the ax on the victims head and, once unconscious, he killed them with a knife. The irrational part that he usually commands in gender killers does not appear in this case either.
They do not exist in Sergey, of 55 years, antecedents known for gender violence nor, at least apparently, the marriage was going through a situation that coincides with the factors that usually trigger a sexist murder: such as the phase of separation or the revelation of an infidelity. The Protosenya family consisted of four members: a 21 year old son who lives in Paris. This young man, who traveled to Spain after the tragic event, only told investigators that he saw his father nervous the previous day. The son had been to this house in Lloret de Mar 24 hours earlier to drop off his little sister at the residence on the Costa Brava. And then he came back.
The next day, April 19, the son could no longer contact his parents or his sister. He notified the police and they went to the house, in the Els Pinars urbanization, and found the three members of the Protosenya family dead. The woman and her daughter were in their respective rooms. Sergey had hung from an outside railing. He had blood splatters from them on his clothes. The son describes his parents as having a happy marriage, in which there was no trace of aggressive behavior on the part of Sergey.
Similar crime in Russia
Journalist Sergey Khazov-Cassia Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty explains to this newspaper that on April 18, the day before the death of the Protosenya family, there was a crime with very similar characteristics in Moscow. Vladislav Avaevvice president in the company GazprombankHe was found dead along with his wife and youngest daughter.
Protosenya, like Avaev, was also a top manager of another gas company, Novatek. Some Spanish media have published that both were oligarchs who had expressed their disagreement with the war in ukraine what a pound Vladimir Putin. The Khazov-Cassia informant, however, questions that both directors have publicly expressed such disagreement and clarifies that they should not be considered oligarchs because they do not reach that consideration. Sergey Protosenya’s estate ‘only’ hovers “the 400 million”he reasons.
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Inside the home, the police found some 10,000 euros in cash and also high-value jewelry that was inventoried by the court clerk. The Protosenya family, like many other wealthy Russian citizens, obtained permission to reside in space Schengen buying property in Cyprus, which grants it if you own a home on the island. In reality, they lived in France and spent only a few days partying in the luxurious house in Els Pinars.
phones and computers
The Mossos, the prosecutor Henry Barata and the judge investigating this case does not contemplate another hypothesis other than that Sergey killed them and then committed suicide. However, they will check the victims’ mobile phones and computers, especially Sergey’s devices, looking for communications with Avaev. If that happened, there would be a thread to pull to find out why both acted in such a similar way just 24 hours apart. It will not be easy to clarify it because the war has broken relations with the Russian authorities, who will hardly agree to share information with the Spanish State. The parallelism between both cases has unleashed rumors about the nature of the Lloret de Mar crime. For now, they are just that.