The Government delegate in Asturias, Adriana Lastra, attended this morning, together with staff of the Government Delegation in Asturias and members of the Security Forces and Corps, the minute of silence condemning the murder of María Antonia in Badajoz.
This is a 28-year-old woman, murdered by her partner on September 24, 2025. Although it was preliminarily considered as social femicide, it is finally a case of gender violence, since it has been confirmed that there was a relationship between a couple. There were no prior complaints of gender-based violence against the alleged aggressor.
With the confirmation of this case, the number of women killed by gender violence amounts to 48 in 2025 and 1,347 since 2003, when these data were first collected. Since 2013, 65 children have been killed for gender-based violence against their mothers and 506 children have been orphaned by gender-based violence in Spain.
In 2026, there have been four murders of women at the hands of their partner or ex-partner and two minor creatures that have been orphaned.
The Government Delegation in Asturias together with the Ministry of Equality and the other Delegations and Sub-Delegations of the Government of Spain and the Island Directorates of the General Administration of the State express their strongest condemnation of the murders for gender violence and affirm in an institutional declaration that they will “persevere” to continue moving from “unity and firmness” towards a society “fairer, more egalitarian and free of male violence”.
The statement was read by Veronica Fernandez, Head of the Coordination Unit against Violence against Women, of the Government Delegation in Asturias. It stresses that as a democratic society, “no violence against women can be tolerated because they are women.” Male violence is a structural violence, based on sexist discrimination, inequality and imbalance in power relations between women and men, as the text read in the Plaza de España points out.
Likewise, it is remembered that the phone 016, online consultations through the mail 016-online@igualdad.gob.es, the WhatsApp channel in the number 600 000 016 and the chat accessible from the website violenciagenero.igualdad.gob.es They work 24 hours a day, every day of the year. In an emergency situation you can also call 112 or the telephone numbers of the National Police (092) and the Civil Guard (062). At 016 you can ask for advice on the resources available and the rights of victims of all forms of violence against women, as well as legal advice from 8h to 22h every day of the week, with attention in 53 languages and a service adapted to possible situations of disability.