The Government delegate in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, presided over the minute of silence that was kept at the gates of the Palau del Temple, headquarters of the Government Delegation, in revulsion for the latest case of male violence in the town of Antella.
At the end of the act, the government delegate has shown her “revulsion and condemnation” in the face of this new case of male violence, while at the same time transferring “all the support for the family and friends” of the victim.
Barnabas stressed that gender violence is “a social scourge that destroys women, that it must be combated and that, to do so, it must be named.” The delegate insisted that “you cannot go back on a social consensus, and you cannot because of the 1,212 women murdered in Spain since 2003. For them, their families and for those who mourn their deaths.” “We cannot break a social consensus because of an absurd negationism that does not respond to reality,” he added. Gender violence, the delegate said, “kills women because they are women. They are not worth subterfuges, they are not worth lies, they are not worth stepping out of banners, and it is not worth confronting from the institutions a social consensus that has existed for decades.”
With this case of male violence, the number of women murdered by their partners and ex-partners rises to 2 in the Valencian Community so far this year and 28, throughout Spain.