- The government delegate in Madrid also attends in Cibeles the minute of silence called by the City Council
The Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo, and the Government’s delegate to the Community of Madrid, Francisco Martín, led this lunchtime the minute of silence of the employees of the Government Delegation in a sign of revulsion and condemnation for the latest murders of gender violence in Madrid: one, in the district of Puente de Vallecas of a woman at the hands of her partner and another, in the district of Carabanchel of a woman and her daughter at the hands of her partner and father.
With these victims, there are already seven women killed this year in the Community of Madrid for gender violence, 53 throughout Spain and 1,238 since 2003, the year in which the figure began to be recorded.
“These figures are unbearable, as it is unbearable that today 9,500 women in the region are currently at risk and registered in the VioGén system for being victims of gender violence,” said the government delegate in a public event this morning. “Gender violence, male violence is the most brutal manifestation of the structural inequality between women and men that exists in the world,” said Francisco Martín.
For this reason, the government delegate called for maintaining unity in this fight and “not to give up on efforts” against gender violence, with prevention, intervention and security measures for its victims.
Previously, the government delegate had also joined this morning the minute of silence called by the City of Madrid in the Plaza de Cibeles.
The number of women killed by gender violence in Spain amounts to 53 in 2023 and 1,238 since 2003. The number of minors killed amounts to 2 in 2023 and 50 since 2013. And the number of children orphaned by this cause amounts to 53 in 2023 and 430 since 2013, according to today’s data from the Government Delegation against Gender Violence.