On Wednesday, the Government Delegation in Asturias held a minute of silence condemning the murder of Victoria by gender violence in Alhaurín el Grande (Málaga).
Victoria was a 33-year-old woman and was murdered by her ex-partner on January 24. He had two daughters and one minor son in common with the aggressor. There were previous 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 five in 2026 and 1,348 since 2003, when these data were first collected. The number of minors orphaned by gender violence against their mother amounts to 5 in 2026 and 509 since 2013.
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 Cristina Pérez Marquina, an official attached to 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.