The government delegate in Galicia, José Ramón Gómez Besteiro, claimed the fight against gender violence and the protection of victims as a “State issue” for the Government of Spain. This was expressed during the public act of revulsion called by the Government Delegation in Galicia against the latest crime of male violence in Galicia, which occurred last Saturday in Oia (Pontevedra). The crime of Ana Vanessa Serén is the 68 committed in Galicia since the beginning of the statistics in 2023.
The government delegate presided over the minute of silence in a sign of condemnation and pain for the murder of Ana Vanessa Serén, of whom he said that “it is a new failure as a society”. “We cannot keep quiet or stop giving visibility to a problem as serious as male violence,” he said, recalling the case of Ana Vanessa, which “forces us to continue improving and moving forward to protect women.” The delegate transferred to all the women of Galicia, and especially those who suffer any type of violence, the support of the Government “to continue putting all the resources that are necessary to eradicate this violence that hits us with an unbearable frequency”. At the moment there are 4,339 active cases of the Viogén System of the Ministry of the Interior in Galicia.
José Ramón Gómez Besteiro transferred his affection to the victim’s family, in a rally in which he was accompanied by the Government’s deputy delegate in A Coruña, María Rivas, by members of the State security forces and bodies and by workers of the Delegation.