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A man who was about to be evicted from his apartment in Spain jumped out of the window, surviving the fall with serious injuries. Firefighters then found the mummified corpse of the man's father hidden in the building.
José Manuel Cobos, 54, threw himself out of the third-floor window of his apartment in Móstoles, about 22 kilometers from central Madrid, on January 20, El Mundo reported.
Cobos defenestrated himself as a judicial commission came to evict him for not paying rent for the apartment where he was thought to be living with his father, who was believed to be alive.
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Cobos suffered serious injuries after jumping off the balcony into an interior patio, Spanish press reported, but he did survive. He crushed several bones in the fall, rupturing his spleen and hip, and sustaining a head trauma.
Cobos was admitted to the Puerta de Hierro hospital and police have not yet been able to question him, as he says he doesn't remember what happened.
When entering his apartment, firefighters discovered the mummified corpse of his 83-year-old father under a bed in a room, Telemadrid reported. He is believed to have been dead for about 18 months, and was last seen alive in June 2020.
Coroners are now trying to ascertain the cause of the octogenarian's death. Cobos will have to explain to police how his father died. Cobos did not notify anyone when his father died so he could continue collecting his pension, Spanish news outlets reported.
One of Cobos' neighbors said they got a big shock when they saw him fall from the third storey of his apartment block.
"We found him lying on the floor of our patio when they were evicting him. It was strange that we had not seen him [the father] for a long time, but we never thought that he could be in there dead," the neighbor said.
The lawyer of Cobos' ex-wife, Alberto Martín, told El Mundo that he believes that the man may have died because he had not had food or due to lack of medication.
Spanish media reported that Cobos worked in construction until a decade ago, when he became unemployed, and that he separated from his wife in 2014.
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