The government delegate and the colonel head of the Civil Guard in the Balears present the Viogén agreements with Alaior, Ferreries and Sant Lluís

The delegate of the Government in the Balearic Islands, Aina Calvo, and the colonel head of the Guàrdia Civil in the Balearic Islands, Alejandro Hernández Mosquera, have today presented in Menorca the Viogén agreements signed with Alaior, Ferreries and Sant Lluís, which, in this way, are incorporated into the network for the protection of victims of gender violence. With these three there are already 17 municipalities in which the monitoring system works in the archipelago.

The mayors of Sant Lluís, Carolina Marquès, i de Ferreries, Joana Febrer, and the mayor of Alaior, José Luis Benejam, as well as the heads of the local police of these municipalities, participated in the event. The island director of the General Administration of the State in Menorca, Isabel López Manchón, and the head of the Unit against Violence against Women of this island, Juan Manuel Gil, have also attended.

The delegate, Aina Calvo, stressed that “the collective action of the institutions, the security forces and bodies, the social entities and the citizens have made it possible to move forward and that the public denunciation is unanimous and forceful, that the siege on the abusers is narrowed and that no situation of abuse finds in the darkness and silence the shelter it had in previous times.” Calvo added that the eradication of male violence “is one of the great challenges of today”: “it is a matter of State to which we give the highest priority and urgency,” he said.

For his part, Colonel Alejandro Hernández Mosquera has thanked the involvement of the three Menorcan municipalities – the first on the island where the system already works – “in the fight of all against violence against women.” “Today is a day of congratulations,” added the head of the Civil Guard on the islands.

Fast, comprehensive and effective tracking

The Viogén system, in operation since 2007, centralizes all the data of the State Security Forces and Bodies and judicial and social agents on each case of gender violence, allowing the rapid, comprehensive and effective monitoring and protection of women suffering abuse and their children in any part of the national territory.

Currently there are about 3,200 women registered in this system throughout the archipelago, of which more than 170 are in Menorca.