Nicanor Sen calls on us to work tirelessly and with unity to eradicate any type of violence and discrimination against women

• The government delegate has participated in the tribute that the Bercian town of Noceda del Bierzo has paid to the two Leonese police officers killed 20 years ago in Barcelona at the hands of a rapist who was on leave

April 7, 2024. The government delegate, Nicanor Sen, participated this Sunday in the institutional act of the I Cycling Memorial Silvia Nogaredo, with which the municipality of Noceda del Bierzo wanted to pay tribute to the two Leonese women, Silvia Nogaledo and Aurora Rodríguez, the first of them daughter of the Bercian town, murdered in the neighborhood of Bellvitge, in Hospitalet de Llobregat (Barcelona) 20 years ago.

Both had studied at the National Police School, in Ávila, and had been in practice for seven months in different police stations in the province of Barcelona. Silvia (Noceda del Bierzo) and Aurora (Toral de los Guzmanes) shared a flat in the town of Barcelona’s carpet, where they were tortured, humiliated and stabbed by a rapist who was on a prison permit, who set fire to the house with them inside, where the bodies of the women were found by the Firefighters.

As the delegate stressed during his speech, “twenty years later her absence continues to hurt, and twenty years later, what happened must continue to motivate us to be ruthless against all kinds of aggression against women, whatever their type.” This event, which as he has said, “shocked the country, but above all, the province of León”, represents “one of the shame of this society, the oppression, discrimination and injustice that for centuries women have suffered, and continue to suffer, and whose most horrendous expression is found in crimes such as that of Silvia and Aurora, to which we want to pay tribute today, because we do not forget that barbarity”.

Sen, who has stressed that in these two decades much progress has been made in the fight for equality, has also maintained that there is a long way to go and that, in this task, not a single step backwards should be taken. "Enough of wearing hot cloths and playing with double language and double morality with a problem that continues to claim lives, that continues to undermine the dignity of half the population and that forces women to live in a constant struggle," he said before adding that "we talk about the struggle for equality, but it is more than that, it is a struggle for justice, for wisdom, for dignity; a struggle that was born of women, who lead women and to which the whole population must join without exception."

“Silvia and Aurora would surely be proud of the progress that has been made, and I am sure they would have continued to contribute to eradicating this shame with their example and their work,” said the government delegate. Both women joined the National Police Force when at the Ávila School the percentage of women barely reached 11%, that is, barely one in three students was a woman; today, there are three in ten, 30%, according to the data alluded to by Nicanor Sen, who has conveyed his desire that “that percentage continues to grow, for the sake of the whole society, it is a pride to have women officers in the National Police Force”.

"Family, friends, colleagues, neighbours, of Silvia and Aurora, I join you in your absence and I am very grateful for your invitation to share with you today this well-deserved tribute; not a single day should we lose sight of the fact that such despicable events as this feminicide that took these two young women twenty years ago are the ones that should encourage us to work for a better society," concluded Sen.