In the past few hours, six people have been victims of crimes that police are already investigating as sexist murders: a woman and her two children in Cuenca, a 20-year-old girl and her mother in Granada, and another 76-year-old woman in Malaga.
Last Saturday the Guardia Civil found the The dismembered bodies of a woman and her two children 5 and 7 years old in a house in Las Pedroñeras, Cuenca. The security forces are investigating the 44-year-old partner and father of the victims, who has already been arrested, as the suspected perpetrator of the crime. According to investigative sources consulted by the EFE office, the woman's disappearance was reported Friday afternoon by a person close to the family, which launched the search mechanism of the agents, which culminated in the discovery of the bodies in a house next to their residence. The woman was included in the Comprehensive Monitoring system in cases of gender violence (VioGén system) and was given a restraining order by her attacker.
In Andalusia, Two cases of sexist violence have been reported in the past 24 hours, one in Granada and one in Malaga. In Granada, a 34-year-old man murdered his 20-year-old ex-partner and her 49-year-old mother before killing himself. The deputy deputy of the government in Granada, José Antonio Montilla, indicated that the young woman was not registered in the Protection System for Victims of Gender Violence (VioGen) and that there had been no previous complaints of abuse. The aggressor, with a history unrelated to gender violence, used a shotgun to kill both women and then committed suicide at his home with the same weapon, according to the main hypothesis of the study.
And in Fuengirola (Málaga), a 76-year-old woman has died, allegedly strangled by her partner, a 75-year-old man, who then tried to commit suicide by taking pills. It happened on Friday around 11:10 p.m. in Juan Sebastián Elcano street, near the boulevard. The alleged attacker survived and has already been arrested. The victim had made no previous complaints against her partner and had no protection measures from the Viogen system, as reported by the government delegate in Andalusia, Pedro Fernández, during a media appearance in Granada.
The Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, has convened a special commission for Thursday, July 4, to evaluate and study these recent murders. In statements to journalists, Redondo has strongly condemned sexist violence and called the day “terrible for Spanish society in general.”
“We have been made aware of several sexist murders: a 20-year-old woman in Granada; another in Malaga, 76 years old; and a woman in Cuenca, along with her two children, although this is still under investigation,” he stated. Furthermore, she warned of the danger of denying sexist violence and stressed the need to condemn it daily, since gender violence is a structural problem that prevents progress towards equality.
The Minister of Social Inclusion, Youth, Family and Equality of the Junta de Andalucía, Loles López, is “overwhelmed” by the killings that have taken place in the autonomous community. “Another black day for a plague that knows no end, that does not understand age, does not understand place and which requires the unity of the entire society,” he said in an audio sent to the media with all his “support and love ” to the relatives, in a message published on his 'X' profile.