Milagros Tolón highlights the work, dedication and proximity of the National Police, “you are a basic pillar of the rule of law”

07/08/2025

With the confirmation of this case, the number of women killed by gender violence in Spain amounts to 24 in 2025 and to 1,318 since 2003, when these data began to be collected.

The Government delegate points out the importance of the victim’s environment for reporting and detecting cases

In Castilla-La Mancha there are 5,600 active cases in the VioGén protection system

Toledo.- The government delegate in Castilla-La Mancha, Milagros Tolón, has expressed her absolute condemnation and rejection of a new murder for gender violence, that of a 34-year-old woman who was allegedly murdered by her partner in the province of Badajoz. The victim had four minor daughters.

He said this after participating in the minute of silence convened at the doors of the Government Delegation and which was also attended by members of the State Security Forces and Corps, the Board of Communities, trade unions and the Municipal Socialist Group in the City of Toledo, as well as personnel from the Delegation itself and the subdelegate, Carlos Ángel Devia.

With the confirmation of this case, the number of women killed by gender violence in Spain amounts to 24 in 2025 and to 1,318 since 2003, when these data began to be collected. The number of children orphaned and orphaned by gender-based violence against their mothers is 16 in 2025 and 485 since 2013, as pointed out by the Government delegate, who stressed that 23 of the 24 women killed were living with their aggressors.

Help of the environments

“The message that must be sent to society is that any signals that environments can detect women who are suffering and that, for any issue, they cannot denounce because they are living at that time with their aggressor, that environments are responsible and that also help the victim to denounce,” said the delegate.

In this regard, she has pointed out that there are resources to provide this attention, such as 016, “the phone that women can use to have professionals who are going to be willing and willing to help them in everything”.

Milagros Tolón has indicated that in Castilla-La Mancha there are more than 5,600 active cases in the VioGén system of protection for women suffering from gender violence and that in the city of Toledo there are 111 active cases. For this reason, he has called on the administrations that whitewash those who deny gender violence, “to be aware that when they kill a woman, our democracy is being violated.”

Institutional declaration

Under the protocol approved by the Council of Ministers last November, this minute of silence has been called in government delegations and subdelegations to express the citizens’ revulsion at every male murder; a concentration that is accompanied by an institutional declaration that, as a democratic society, “we cannot tolerate any type of violence against women because they are women”.

Male violence “is a structural violence, based on sexist discrimination, inequality and imbalance in power relations between women and men. Violence against women and girls violates their fundamental rights to life, freedom, physical and moral integrity, equality and dignity.”

As stated in the statement, despite the negationist approaches of male violence, “we are going to persevere and we are going to continue moving towards a more just, egalitarian society and free of male violence. To this end, an appeal is made to all institutions, administrations and the whole of society to maintain this struggle from unity and firmness.”

Resources

The Ministry of Equality, through the Government Delegation against Gender Violence, recalls that the telephone 016, online consultations through the email 016-online@igualdad.gob.es, the WhatsApp channel on the number 600 000 016 and the online chat, accessible from the website violenciagenero.igualdad.gob.es, operate 24 hours a day, every day of the week.

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 8 am to 10 pm every day of the week, with care in 53 languages and a service adapted to possible situations of disability.

On the other hand, it also recalls that in an emergency situation you can call 112 or the emergency telephones of the National Police (091) and the Civil Guard (062). In case it is not possible to make a call and in a situation of danger, you can use the ALERTCOPS application, from which an alert signal will be sent to the police with geolocation.

These means of assistance can be activated by the victim and also by anyone who knows or suspects a case of gender violence. It is a duty of the whole society.