The accused of the fatal fire in Ibiza suffers from schizoaffective disorder: “She is a normal person”, defends her son

The woman accused of setting a deadly fire in a house in ses Païsses, where a 77-year-old man with reduced mobility died on August 3, 2023 in Ibiza, suffers from schizoaffective disorder, a psychiatrist from the Can Misses Hospital who treated her confirmed to the jury.

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During the third day of the trial being held at the Provincial Court of the Balearic Islands, the defense insisted on the mental health of the accused, identified as I.C.N., a key point for the legal strategy. Her son declared that, despite the diagnosis, his mother “is a normal person” and that the disorder did not affect her daily life.

During the opening of the trial, the prosecutor had already advanced that the woman suffers from schizoaffective disorder, although she remarked that “she knew perfectly well what she was doing and had the will to do it”, without showing nervousness or empathy at the time of the facts.

“It has no mortgages and no expenses.”

I.C.N.’s son assured the court that his mother was not experiencing financial difficulties, thus dismissing one of the possible motives put forward by the prosecution.

“She has no mortgages and no expenses,” he said, adding that he was unaware of any relationship between his mother and the victim’s son.

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One of the key pieces of evidence against the accused are the recordings in which she is seen leaving her house at times coinciding with the fire. In these images the woman is wearing different clothes and her face is covered with a veil.

“She wore a veil so that the neighbors could not see her,” said the Guardia Civil investigators, insisting that the woman seen in fifty recordings is the accused “without any doubt”.

In this context, the son reported that his mother went out for walks covered with scarves or hats since she suffered an attempted hit-and-run and death threats by an ex-partner, events that she reported to the Office of the Dona del Consell de Ibiza. Since then, she avoided going out at peak hours and modified her routines for fear of her aggressor.

“He always went out very early in the morning or at night to avoid running into him,” explained his son, who argued that this behavior was not an attempt to hide him.

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The white bag and some Skechers sneakers

Despite the defense line, the prosecution maintains that I.C.N. is responsible for the arson resulting in death, for which revisable permanent imprisonment is requested.

The investigation is supported by recordings from 54 security cameras, which place it just 350 meters from the scene of the fire in the early morning hours of August 3.

One of the Civil Guard agents explained during his statement that, when searching the defendant’s home, they identified a white bag with a blue and pink logo, as well as Skechers sneakers. These elements coincide with those worn by the woman captured in the images that morning.

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