December 24, 2025. Belén López Granados, 64, arrives at the vacation home that the prestigious architect Josep Juanpere i Miret, 72, has at the foot of the Baqueira-Beret ski slope in the afternoon. The couple has been in a relationship for a couple of years and, although she lives in Madrid and he in Barcelona, they usually spend time together, as is the case at Christmas.
The two of them and Juanpere's nephew attend the Christmas Eve dinner they celebrate. This is the closest direct relative that the architect has along with a son from his only marriage. As will be read nine months later in the court order that will decree provisional release for Belén López on bail of 80,000 euros for Juanpere's death, at the end of the dinner he begins to feel sick. It seems that something they have eaten has not been good for them. «At night, indicatively, both of them have dinner in the company of the deceased's nephew, Mr. A. I. At the time of dessert, Mr. Juanpere begins to feel unwell, and, due to what appears to be a state of weakness, he collapses, hitting his head against a metal radiator. For this reason, the deceased is taken to the hospital to be examined," the court order will state.
Juanpere is admitted from the emergency room to the Vielha hospital. He spends a few hours under observation and is discharged. According to the architect's nephew, who accompanies the couple in this situation, at the "moment of being discharged from the hospital due to the food indisposition and the blow to the head, his uncle was normal within his indisposition, conscious and speaking normally."
The reconstruction that the investigating judge will make of the facts will determine that due to the poor condition of Juanpere's home due to "the pattern of vomiting and indisposition" that caused his transfer to the hospital, Belén "reserves three rooms at the AC Baqueira hotel. Among them, a joint one for her and Mr. Juanpere, and another for Mr. A. I.
The next day, December 25, Christmas Day, with the home already tidy, the couple leaves the hotel and returns alone to Baqueira's home. According to the nephew, this is the last time he sees his uncle alive. Before saying goodbye, he made a request to Belén: "That she communicate any circumstance that occurred with her uncle, to which the person under investigation responded in the affirmative." The nephew, always according to what the court order will include in his statement, never receives a call from Belén alerting him of any problem with his uncle.
On the same December 25, "around 9:00 p.m.," the nephew contacted Belén to inquire about how his uncle's health was evolving. «He calls the telephone number of the person under investigation, and she tells him that his uncle is feeling better; However, Mr. A. I. and the deceased do not exchange words directly.
Once at Baqueira's house, Juanpere, whom his partner and other witnesses will describe as "a healthy person, accustomed to sports and an orderly life," eats practically nothing. His diet is limited, the court order will detail, "to small amounts of water accompanied by serum sachets."
On December 26, two days after indigestion and hitting the radiator, the architect found himself "apathetic and without strength." The nephew knows none of this, the judge picks up in his car, since his calls to Belén to ask about him go unanswered. «He tried to contact us by phone on several occasions without success. When he did not receive a response, he finally decided to go to the home, where he went accompanied by another person.
Belén will explain in her statement that that day she has her personal phone "on silent." Juanpere's cell phone, for its part, "despite being active to be able to receive and send calls," does not record "any activity" during December 25 and 26.
When the nephew, due to the lack of news from Belén and his uncle, goes to Baqueira's house, no one opens the door. «He knocks on the door and receives no response. Likewise, he tries to access the home with keys that he legitimately had. "This attempt was unsuccessful, given that, according to Mr. A. I., there were keys left inside," the judicial order will record his movements. «Finally, given the emergency situation that Mr. A. I. perceived, he declared that he managed to access the home by the x-ray method. Once inside the home, he hears the person being investigated say: 'If you are here, you will be; If not, you're not there.' It should be added that, according to Mr. A. I., the person under investigation tried to prevent them from entering the room, but this attempt was unsuccessful.
Once inside, Mr. A. I. could see his uncle lying on the floor, with no apparent signs of life, which is why a companion at that moment, at the request of Mr. A. I., called the emergency services, these services being the ones that first came to the scene of the incident. "There is no previous call to them from the person under investigation."
The investigating judge will highlight in his order as "relevant" "the spontaneous statement that, indicatively, Mrs. López would have made once the Emergency operation was present at the home: 'I wanted to marry him and he didn't want to get married.'"
"The cause of death appears to be a cardiorespiratory arrest, although a series of wounds compatible with the use of external force can be seen across the entire neck," the court order will add in relation to some marks that the people under investigation attribute to the fall that the architect suffered two days before and in which he hit his head in the area.
«He could have incurred the crime of homicide, either in its omissive modality, by appreciating how Mr. Juanpere's state of health worsened without carrying out any type of conduct to prevent it, or in its active modality, precipitating the death. In the abstract, the sentences could reach 15 years in prison," the judge will conclude, leaving open two hypotheses to which is added another great unknown still unknown: When did Juanpere die? How long did Belén spend alone with his body?
