The Government Delegation against Gender Violence investigates three sexist murders, two of them that occurred in the last 24 hours (in Benidorm and Palencia) and a third known this Sunday in Malaga, with the discovery of the body of a woman who disappeared in March , and her husband, already arrested, has confessed.
If these three known sexist murders are confirmed in the last 24 hours, the number of women killed by this scourge would rise to 33 so far this year and to 1,163 since 2003, the date from which statistics began to be compiled.
"Rage and a lot of pain for three lives of three women who have been murdered for being women. Let's not accept denialism, let's all fight against sexist violence," said the Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, in her Twitter account. Twitter.
The last known sexist murder is the one that occurred in Palencia, of a 32-year-old woman allegedly at the hands of her 36-year-old partner, who later committed suicide by throwing himself onto the train track.
The woman was found dead in a house located on Avenida de los Reyes Católicos when the agents went to the address that appeared on the DNI of the run over man to report the death, sources of the investigation have informed Efe.
Two children, 2 and 7 years old, opened the door to the police, who observed that the woman was lifeless in a bed, with marks on her neck, which suggests that she could have been strangled, although we have to wait for the autopsy results.
In Benidorm (Alicante) the National Police is investigating the crime of a 68-year-old woman, whose body was found this Sunday by agents who went to the house to report the death of her 73-year-old partner in a traffic accident.
Sources of the investigation have informed Efe that the events occurred this Sunday, after around 10:10 p.m., a car driven by a man invaded the opposite lane and collided head-on with a crane truck at kilometer 140 of the highway. N-332, in the neighboring municipality of Villajoyosa.
The policemen went to the home of the deceased man to inform his sentimental partner of the fatal traffic accident and found the door of the house open and the woman on the floor dead with two stab wounds to the chest.
The investigation indicates that the man committed the crime and then took the car to flee or to take his own life.
The third of the known murders in the last 24 hours corresponds to that of Débora MD, a 39-year-old woman who had been missing since last March.
Yesterday, the agents arrested her husband, 40 years old, with whom she had two daughters in common, aged 5 and 17, when they found her body, in a warehouse in the La Estrella industrial estate, in Malaga.
The man has confessed that he strangled her in the family home during an argument and buried her under concrete.
Last week Equality already confirmed the sexist crime of a 21-year-old girl at the hands of her partner in Campdevànol (Girona).
The 016 serves all victims of sexist violence 24 hours a day and in 52 different languages, as does the 016-online@igualdad.gob.es email;
Attention is also provided through WhatsApp through the number 600000016, and minors can contact the ANAR Foundation telephone number 900 20 20 10.
In an emergency situation, you can call 112 or the telephone numbers of the National Police (091) and the Civil Guard (062), and if you cannot call, you can use the ALERTCOPS application, from which information is sent. an alert signal to the Police with geolocation.
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