A man accused of throwing his 27-year-old girlfriend to her death from a sixth-storey hotel balcony has been seized by police.

Victim Maria Clara Urdangaray had been dating for four months and had been staying in Kosovo for her boyfriend’s brother’s wedding.

Argentinian-born Maria Clara’s badly damaged body was found at the foot of the hotel in Kosovo Polje, a town southwest of the city of Pristina, on 1st August in the early hours of the morning.

The police have named her boyfriend Swiss national Endrit Nika, 31, as the prime suspect on suspicion of murder, according to local media, and he has now been arrested.

Maria Clara’s mother Magdalena denied claims that she had committed suicide, saying she was “full of life”.

She said: “The boyfriend was a very jealous person, I can’t believe what he did to her.

“The idea that it might have been a suicide does not cross my mind, it is not like that.”

Maria Clara’s heartbroken dad Facundo Urdangaray told Argentinian media forensic investigators had found injuries on Maria’s body not compatible with a fall.

He said police believe they happened before she died.

Mum Magdalena added: “Switzerland is a very orderly country and the neighbours are very attentive to these things.

“They were always arguing and a neighbour asked them to be quiet.

“She told me that he had not grown up and that it always ended in arguments.”

She said through tears that the last time she spoke to her daughter, she had said that she missed her mum.

Magdalena says she told her: “I’ll send you a ticket.”

But the grieving mother, who reportedly spoke to her daughter every day, would never see her alive again.

Nika has reportedly claimed that he was asleep at the time of Maria Clara’s death and that he had heard screams.

The investigation is ongoing.