The government delegate in the Community of Madrid, Francisco Martín, joined this morning in expressing his condemnation of the murder of Vanesa, a 36-year-old woman at the hands of her partner, and condemnation of gender violence, during the minute of silence called by the City of Móstoles.
At the end of the event, and after expressing his support and solidarity to the children, relatives and friends of the victim, Francisco Martín has expressed the strongest commitment of the Government of Spain to end the barbarity represented by gender violence: “All this suffering requires the utmost determination to end gender-based violence. This terrible suffering requires commitment, unity and firmness, and is incompatible with any hesitation, with any play on words or with any discourse that whitewashes gender violence.” “We urge all political formations, the whole of society, to take a firm new step forward and to be totally unrelenting in the face of any expression of male violence,” concluded the government delegate.
With this new confirmed case of gender violence, there are two women murdered for this reason in the Community of Madrid so far this year, 24 throughout Spain and 1,208 women murdered since 2003, the year in which data were started to be recorded.
The victim had two minor children, bringing the number of minors orphaned by gender violence in Spain to 25 in 2023 and to 402 since 2013.
The Government Delegation also observed another minute’s silence at noon before its headquarters, which has been joined by numerous public employees, in a sign of revulsion for this crime of gender violence that Vanesa was the victim of.