The Government Delegation today welcomed a minute’s silence in rejection of Catalina’s 48-year-old male murder of gender-based violence in Malaga, which took place this Sunday, February 9, and reiterated their heartfelt condolences to their families and friends.
She is the second woman killed by gender violence in 2025. With the confirmation of this case, the number of women killed by gender violence in Spain amounts to 1,295 since 2003, when these data began to be collected.
The victim had three minor children, so the number of minors orphaned by gender violence against their mother amounts to five so far this year and 474 since 2013.
Since 2013, 62 children have been killed for gender-based violence against their mothers and 471 children have been orphaned by gender-based violence in Spain.
Government Delegate Sabrina Moh, who was responsible for reading the institutional manifesto, stressed that, as a democratic society, “we cannot tolerate any kind of violence against women because they are women.”
“Male violence is a structural violence, based on sexist discrimination, inequality and imbalance in power relations between women and men,” he said, noting that violence against women and girls “violates their fundamental rights to life, liberty, physical and moral integrity, equality and dignity.”
Duty of the whole society
“Despite the negationist approaches to male violence, we will persevere and continue to move towards a more just, egalitarian society free of male violence,” he said. To this end, an appeal is made to all institutions, administrations and the whole of society to maintain this struggle from unity and firmness.
The Ministry of Equality, through the Government Delegation against Gender Violence, recalls that telephone 016, and other services for care and advice are available to the whole society. These means of assistance can be activated by the victim and also by anyone who knows or suspects a case of gender violence. “It’s a duty of the whole society,” he concluded.