The Government Delegation today welcomed a minute’s silence in condemnation of the murder by gender violence of Susana, 49 years old in Asturias on 07 June 2025, Ramy Virginia of 41 in Guadalajara on 18 June and María del Carmen of 60 in Las Palmas on 25 June.
With these three crimes, the number of women murdered by their partners or ex-partners amounts to 20 so far in 2025, and to 1,314 since 2003, when data on gender violence began to be officially recorded in Spain.
In addition, 12 minors have been orphaned so far this year as a result of these crimes. Since 2013, 65 girls and boys have been killed for gender-based violence against their mothers, and 481 minors have been orphaned by this cause.
The Delegate of the Government, Sabrina Moh, has expressed her strongest condemnation and has shown her closeness and support to the families and environments of the victims. “Confirming seven machista murders in a single week is a collective failure as a society. We cannot look the other way or normalize this horror,” he said.
Moh has insisted that violence against women “is not a private or one-off problem, but a systematic violation of human rights that challenges the whole of society.” In this sense, he has called for institutional and social unity in the face of discourses that minimize or deny this reality: “In spite of those who deny it, male violence exists and kills. And we will continue to fight it with all the tools of the rule of law.”
The highest representative of the Government of Spain in the city recalled the importance of continuing to promote equality policies as a means of prevention, as well as the need to continue advancing in education on equality from the earliest ages. “Only with education, prevention, justice and effective protection can we build a society free of male violence,” he said.
From the Ministry of Equality, through the Government Delegation against Gender Violence, it is recalled that telephone 016 and the other services of attention and advice are available 24 hours a day, every day of the year, and are accessible to all people.
On the other hand, it is also recalled that in an emergency situation you can call 112 or the emergency telephones of the National Police (091) and the Civil Guard (062). In case it is not possible to make a call and in a situation of danger, you can use the ALERTCOPS application, from which an alert signal will be sent to the police with geolocation.
These means of assistance can be used both by victims and by anyone who knows or suspects a situation of gender violence.