The Court of Violence against Women number 2 of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria has ordered that the partner of former boxer Poli Díaz be protected as a possible victim at "extreme risk", after hearing not only the story of the continuous ill-treatment that he denounces endured, but also the reasons why she fears that the 'Potro de Vallecas' will kill her.
"I'm not going to kill you because I love you very much", "you're going to be the next to die", "if you denounce me I'll kill you", "I'm not going to keep my hands to myself, don't worry, I'll send someone to do it ", are some of the threats that the complainant claims to have received from Poli Díaz, now reproduced in the car by which the risk she suffers is recognized.
The former European boxing champion has been in preventive detention since last week, after her wife went out into the street half-naked, with a bruised body and bleeding from the lips to ask for help, after suffering a beating, always according to the version her.
With the order issued this Tuesday, it is up to the security forces to establish the protection measures for women that they consider most appropriate to the danger to which she is exposed.
Poli Díaz's partner has told Judge María Auxiliadora Díaz that she has suffered ill-treatment practically since the beginning of the relationship between the two, when they lived in Madrid.
So, the complainant has pointed out, the former boxer already locked her up at home, so that she would not leave it, and behaved with her with "extreme violence", both physical and psychological.
This behavior has supposedly continued and worsened in Las Palmas: according to her account, Poli does not allow her to be independent, has caused her to lose several jobs, controls her cell phone, has taken her away from her daughters, from the rest of the her family and her friends, does not allow her to buy clothes, paint herself or groom herself and forces her to wear her hair in a ponytail and wear "flip-flops instead of shoes."
The former boxer's partner explained to the magistrate that he "smokes drugs uncontrollably on a daily basis" and that, when he does so, he "becomes extremely violent."
According to her complaint, several times he has pulled her hair and slapped her with an open hand and three times he has grabbed her by the neck, "to the point of fearing for her life."
And he has added that he is "very afraid" of her, because he has not only threatened her directly, but has also received threats from other people who have told him: "I am going to finish what Poli did not do".
The day of the arrest
Regarding the episode that led to the arrest of the former boxer last week, he has stated that the night before, "out of the blue, he began to beat her, and at one point put a cloth over her mouth and she couldn't breathe." Then the attacks continued "all night".
"Around 8:00 in the morning," adds the car, quoting her statement, "she went out in her underwear and that's when she asked for help" and she felt "very alarmed" because she saw that "no one wanted to help her, but a neighbor, who was the one who called the police.
Poli Díaz has denied all these facts when appearing in court. For the magistrate, her statement was not "credible, but evasive, when she was asked specific questions."
