Russian billionaire found hanged at home: "He killed his wife and daughter with an ax"
The bodies found in a villa in Lloret de Mar, to give the alarm to the other son
He allegedly hanged himself after killing his wife and daughter Sergey Protosenya, the Russian billionaire found dead with the two women in a villa in Lloret de Mar, a city on the Costa Brava of Catalonia in Spain where the family spent their holidays.
The Spanish authorities are investigating: according to what La Vanguardia and other Iberian media have written, Protosenya, 55, allegedly used an ax and a knife to kill his wife, 53, and his daughter, just 18. The victims were in bed. The man would later hang himself from the railing of the villa.
A reconstruction to be clarified, because the agents do not completely exclude that the responsibility for the three deaths is attributable to unknown persons.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, speaking of a case of gender-based violence, is unbalanced on Twitter: "A man kills his wife and daughter in Girona - he wrote - two lives taken away by a structural problem that we must eradicate".
The alarm would have been raised by the couple's other son, a 22-year-old boy, who for hours hadn't been able to get in touch with anyone in the family.
Protosenya had held executive positions in Novatek, a gas company. According to Russian media, he had an estimated net worth of $ 440 million.
(Unioneonline / D)