The Delegate of the Government in the Valencian Community, Pilar Bernabé, has presided together with the Superior Chief of Police in the Valencian Community, Jorge Marti, and the General Head of the Sixth Zone of the Civil Guard, Arturo Prieto, among others, the minute of silence called at the headquarters of the Delegation of the Government in condemnation of the latest machista murder of l'Alfàs del Pi and in support of the relatives of the victim.
“We roundly condemn the gender-based violence that kills women for being so,” said Barnabas after a minute’s silence while stressing the importance of denunciation and work on prevention and awareness. In this line, he pointed out that if the woman murdered in l´Alfàs del Pi “had reached the end in the denunciation that gave up, although unfortunately we will never know that, she would have had a housing resource with which she would possibly have been more protected”.
The delegate has also censored “the banalization of male violence.” “It is not a question of names, of linguistic trilerism, but of consensus and the struggle of all administrations against gender violence,” he added.
With the woman murdered in l´Alfàs del Pi there are three victims of gender violence in Spain so far this year, the first in the Valencian Community. Since 2003, 154 women have been murdered by their partners or former partners in the Comunitat and 1,243 in Spain.
The minutes of silence were also held in the subdelegations of Valencia, Alicante and Castellón.