The Government Delegation today welcomed a minute’s silence in rejection of the murder by gender violence (vicarious violence) of a 5-year-old girl in the province of Murcia on April 1, 2025 and reiterated its heartfelt condolences to her family and friends, and reiterated its heartfelt condolences to her family and friends.
With this terrible murder, she is the first child murdered by her parents or by the couples or ex-couples of their mothers to cause maximum pain to them so far this year.
With this, 6 women were murdered by gender violence in 2025 at the hands of their partner or ex-partner and 7 minor creatures that have been orphaned. The number of women killed by gender violence in Spain amounts to 1,300 since 2003, when these data were first collected.
With the confirmation of this case, there are 63 boys and girls killed for gender violence against their mother and 476 the number of girls and boys orphaned by gender violence in Spain since 2013.
The Delegate of the Government, Sabrina Moh, who has been in charge of reading the institutional decaration, has stressed that, as a democratic society, “we cannot tolerate any type 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 violence.