Fallecen four women in a day of black male violence

Four women died at the hands of their partners becoming yesterday in one of the bloodiest in terms of gender violence. The first victim, a Bolivian woman, died in Madrid after receiving three stab wounds to her boyfriend who was arrested after trying to commit suicide. He also received a fatal cuchillada a woman in El Puerto de Santa Maria (Cadiz) after discussing with her husband in the street, while another two women died in Valladolid shot and Cullera (Valencia). After this black day, the number of victims rises to 18 in the first two months of the year.

Laura MI aged 22, of Bolivian nationality and resident in Madrid, became the fourteenth victim of male violence (the eighth foreign) after her boyfriend, Nestor Wilfredo VS-29, three asestara stabbing him in the chest last morning in the house they both shared in the Madrid district of Lavapiés. According to the report of TOTAL, the victim was acuchillada once in the abdomen and twice in the chest, wounds that killed since affecting a lung. After committing the crime, the assailant tried to kill himself, cortándose veins with the same weapon that killed his girlfriend.

By failing to do so, left the house and went to his home on foot near some friends. But along the way encounter with a neighbor who, seeing the wounds on his wrists, called the 112 who came to meet the couple. After making sure that the cuts were not deep and were not serious, members of the emergency services asked the aggressor as they had done when the man confessed to the crime he had committed, so he was arrested and placed at the disposal court.

Also as a result of stab wounds died this afternoon a woman aged 49 in El Puerto de Santa Maria, after a fight with her ex-husband in the street. According to explain witnesses of the discussion, which alerted to 112, the victim was shopping in a jewellery when it began to brawl, after which the man, who had a restraining order, stabbed up to four times in aa his ex-wife with a large knife. The wounds caused the death of the woman on the way to hospital where he was being transferred.

TWO VICTIMS TIROTEADAS

Only a few hours later, the blacklist Deaths increased. In Cullera, the incident occurred on the terrace of a cafe where the deceased, aged 58, he took something with a friend. The woman died after being shot in the chest by her former partner, who according to police had a history and psychological problems, plus he weighed about two orders of previous complaints.

Finally, Valladolid in the fourth murder was committed. Four fire with a shotgun from the window of his house just to the life of MJMC, 55, while walking in the street. Subsequently, the author of the shooting caused a fire in his house and took the life of a shooting, explained subdelegation of the Government in Valladolid, Cecilio Vadillo,

EIGHTEEN VICTIMS IN 2008

With the death of these four women and 18 women were murdered by their partners or former partners, so far this year, according to data from 'redfeminista.org', collected by others / press. Moreover, the Bolivian victim died in Madrid became the eighth victim of 2008 of foreign origin, the same number of assailants immigrants who have ended up with the lives of their girlfriends.

With this track record, February enter in a record of deaths, because in the last 26 days and up to ten women have died, three more than those who were killed in January, a month that became the bloodiest month for the past five years, surpassed only by the first month of 2006, when the macho violence claimed nine victims.

Faced with this situation, the president of the Observatory on Gender Violence Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ), Montserrat Comas warned that "neither the government, nor the Spanish society can become accustomed to live with these figures intolerable." The person in charge of the Observatory, condemned "unequivocally" These four new killings and urged political parties to "restore momentum" which began the legislature in the fight against this phenomenon and encourage reflection in the context of the election campaign.

Comas understands that this issue should return to "the political priority" for the purpose of raising public awareness and rejection. In this regard, he regretted that, as the barometer of the CIS November 2007, "only three percent of the company considers serious" this problem.