About 200 neighbors have concentrated on Tuesday at noon in front of the City of Fuenlabrada to show their rejection and conviction for the murder of a young woman from the town , Gema V., 22, occurred last weekend in the German city from Mannheim, which is being investigated as a case of sexist violence. Investigators point out that the deceased had just left the relationship with the man who ended his life stabbing.

Attendees at the rally today, among which were friends of the murdered young woman and councilors of the municipal corporation, have kept five minutes of silence in their memory after a banner that read: ' Fuenlabrada, City against the gender violence For their lives, our voices . '

"Fuenlabrada will always be next to the victims and denouncing the intolerable macho aggressions against which we all have to continue fighting," said the acting mayor, Isidoro Ortega (PSOE), who has exclaimed 'Not one less' at the end The five minutes of silence.

Concentration in memory of Gema at the door of the Municipality of Fuenlabrada. FUENLABRADA CITY HALL

The City Council has decreed "two days of official mourning and half-mast flags in all public buildings as a sign of mourning and respect," by agreement reached Tuesday unanimously by all the political forces of the municipal corporation.

In addition, Ortega has explained that, since this Saturday, when the municipal officials were officially informed by the police authorities of the death of the young woman from Fuenlabreña, the Victim Attention Service has been attending to her family, including her mother , who resides in the municipality.

Family support

"The City Council has always wanted to maintain maximum discretion at the express request of those responsible for the investigation," they insisted from the Consistory, who has shown in a statement his "resounding rejection of this new aggression that has cost his life to a young woman from Fuenlabreña. "

The body of Gema V. was found last Saturday inside an apartment in the German city of Mannheim , when agents entered the house after a man - allegedly his ex-boyfriend - had jumped into a vacuum from inside The house, located on a fifth floor.

The Mannheim Police showed up at the house at around 6.30 pm when they received several calls from neighbors of Neuhofer Street in which they alerted the jump of a man into a vacuum from a fifth floor. The police decided to enter the house and found the slashed body of the Spanish woman.

Those close to the deceased say that the young woman no longer lived with the alleged murderer with whom she had broken the relationship this past summer. The alleged criminal is hospitalized in critical condition.

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