• Galicia A civil guard shoots dead his ex-partner, who had a restraining order, in a campsite in Pontevedra

The residents of the Pontevedra town of Oia, of just over 3,000 inhabitants, have shown this Sunday their shock and pain at the sexist crime of Ana Vanesa S. P., 44, who was shot dead yesterday by her ex-partner, a civil guard who after fleeing took his own life.

Several hundred people from both Oia and surrounding municipalities have gathered this afternoon at the entrance of the campsite of O Muiño, where the tragic crime took place and where Ana Vanesa worked as a cleaner, to observe a minute of silence and make a firm condemnation of this case of sexist violence.

The neighbors, dismayed, have laid flowers at the entrance of the facilities in memory of Ana Vanesa, a woman who has been defined by all as kind and cheerful.

In the town, flags have been flying at half-mast since yesterday. The acting mayor of Oia, Cristina Correa, has said that "unfortunately, these cases happen much more regularly than anyone would like."

"We never expect them to pass here, in a quiet council," added Correa, who has shown his "impotence" in the face of crime.

Already this morning, around 10:00 am, several people have kept another minute of silence at the football field of Oia, at the start of the I Vuelta Ciclista al Baixo Miño.

Correa announced yesterday that three days of official mourning would be decreed and that municipal activities scheduled for this day would be suspended.

For her part, the director of the campsite, Beatriz González, has pointed out to the media that it is something "very sad and hard to face" and has defined the victim as "a good worker", "very sacrificed" and that she always had "a smile" and "sense of humor".

The crime has also caused a political upheaval. This morning, the delegate of the Government in Galicia, José Ramón Gómez Besteiro, has lamented the "failure as a society" that this sexist murder supposes.

"It can't happen again. We cannot remain silent or stop moving forward to protect them," Besteiro said on his Twitter account.

Also the president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, has declared in the same social network to feel "dismayed and speechless" after what happened with Ana Vanessa, as well as the conselleira de Igualdade, María Jesús Lorenzana, who in addition to condemning the crime and showing his support for the family has recalled that women "are not alone" and can go "as soon as they detect the slightest symptom of violence of any kind by their partners" to the information services for women and reporting.

They have also shown their rejection on Twitter the leader of the BNG, Ana Pontón, who has expressed her "anger, pain and indignation at a new murder by sexist violence"; and the general secretary of the PSdeG, Valentín González Formoso, who has pointed out sexist violence as a "scourge" that we must eradicate "once and for all".

The murder took place outside the campsite of O Muiño, located in the parish of Mougás, at the foot of the road that connects the towns of Baiona and A Guarda.

The victim, who was an employee of the campsite, left his work shift around 16:00 p.m., at which time the murderer, Víctor G. D., a neighbor of A Guarda and a civil guard by profession, was waiting for her at the exit and shot her to death.

After his escape, the Civil Guard began an extensive search operation by land and air.

The killer was located on Mount Valga hours later. There, the agents of the Civil Guard tried to surrender without success, since around 22:15 hours he decided to commit suicide with the same weapon with which he killed his ex-partner.

The murderer had in force arestraining order of 300 meters and the prohibition of communicating with the victim, in addition to several previous complaints of sexist violence.

If confirmed as a case of sexist violence, the number of women killed by their partners or ex-partners so far this year amounts to 21 and 1,025 since 2003, when records began.

The 016 serves all victims of gender violence 24 hours a day and in 52 different languages, as well as the mail 016-online@igualdad.gob.es; 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 phones of the National Police (091) and the Civil Guard (062) and in case of not being able to call you can resort to the ALERTCOPS application, from which an alert signal is sent to the Police with geolocation.

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