2023-09-05 02:37:09
The two new sexist murders in Seville and in Villanueva del Arzobispo (Jaén) could bring the number of women killed for this reason to 42 so far this year. The Government Delegate against Gender Violence, Victoria Rosell, has confirmed both crimes after the meeting of the Crisis Committee this Monday, which analyzed the cases of the month of August. Rosell, who has sent his condolences and support to the families, recalled that tEveryone can save lives if they warn about gender violence what is around you. “We can all call 016”, he has stressed her.
Both events took place this Sunday, September 3, when the Seville National Police arrested an individual after finding the lifeless body of her ex-partner, a 46-year-old woman, in a home in the Seville capital with cuts on her neck. Likewise, agents of the Local Police found the bodies of a 58-year-old man and a 52-year-old woman with gunshot wounds in a house in Villanueva del Arzobispo (Jaén).
35.7% of deaths in Andalusia
After confirming both cases, Andalusia registers 15 women murdered at the hands of their partners or ex-partners so far this year, 35.7% of the total. to this community It is followed by Catalonia with 7 and 16.6%, the Canary Islands, Castilla y León, Valencia and Madrid with 3 and 7.14%, Galicia and the Basque Country with 2 and 4.76% and, finally, Aragon, Castilla-La Mancha. , Navarra and La Rioja with 1 and 2.38%.
In Asturias, the Balearic Islands, Cantabria, Extremadura, Murcia, Ceuta and Melilla, no murders due to gender violence have been recorded in 2023.
He 40% of the victims this year were between 31 and 40 years old, 22.5% between 41 and 50, the age group where the last victims were, and 7.5% between 51 to 60. In addition, 62% were Spanish and 57.5% were murdered by their partners. In fact, almost 70% were still living with their attacker when the crime occurred.
On the other hand, the National Police arrested a 41-year-old man on Monday for the alleged commission of a crime of gender violence and another of animal abuse in the city of Murcia, after allegedly threatening his then partner and ending with the life of the minor daughter’s pet in his presence.
Given the increase in cases of sexist violence, the Ministry of Equality has convened the crisis committee for this September 4 to evaluate the eight sexist crimes that have occurred in the month of August.
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