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A woman was stabbed by her ex-husband while she was listening, up on stage, to a popular music concert in northern Mexico, the singer who led the presentation denounced on Tuesday.

Mexican media broadcast a video of the performance of

the band Paco Barrón y sus Norteños Clan

and it is clearly seen when a man approaches the side of the stage and attacks the woman with a knife, who is hospitalized for injuries.

"Speak to the police!" Barrón shouted when he realized the attack, which sparked shouts from the public that attended the presentation at a nightclub in Montemorelos, in the northern state of Nuevo León.

"I (was) impressed, indignant and felt a lot of helplessness. I don't like that they do this with women. The person (aggressor) wanted to run away, I was the one who saw where he was walking,

I was the one who spoke into the microphone

and it was the way they subdued him and

handed him over to the authorities

," Barrón told TV Azteca.

According to versions of witnesses quoted by the local press,

the man would have felt jealous because Barrón gave the woman flowers

, something he usually does in his presentations.

The woman suffered severe injuries and will have to be hospitalized for at least two weeks.

The aggressor was arrested and a judge formally declared him a prisoner on Tuesday, according to authorities.

Hand in hand with the violence linked to organized crime, which has hit Mexico for 15 years, attacks against women have multiplied with an average of

10 murdered each day

, according to official figures.

a state problem

Violence against women in Mexico, which claims the lives of more than 10 women a day, has been recognized as a

state problem,

but many other things are lacking to continue advancing, including economic resources, the executive director of Amnesty said on Tuesday. International Mexico, Edith Olivares Ferreto.

Among other pending issues are that

the coverage of the services provided by the State is not sufficient

, nor is the capacity of public servants, nor the resources, he added, according to Efe reports from Mexico City.

In the case of Mexico, Ferreto said that "there are positive changes" and pointed out that in Mexico "it has been endowed with a whole

legal and institutional framework that recognizes violence against women

as a State problem, as a State responsibility" .

He gave as an example the General Law of Women's Access to a Life Free of Violence, in addition to laws in the 32 states that make up Mexico, and pointed out as "great advances the construction of criminal types and a series of institutions such as institutes, centers of justice and specialized prosecutors for women".

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