The Delegate of the Government in Melilla, Sabrina Moh, has highlighted the double morality of the PP in the matter of feminism. “That the PP, which has opposed all policies, all laws on feminism and the protection of women, which now wants to champion an issue as important as feminism, is what we are used to,” he said.
The highest representative of the Government of Spain in our city has lamented this “double morality” as well as the fact that they use topics “as sensitive as this as arrogant weapons, as political weapons against the Government.”
In fact, the head of the Government Delegation recalled that it was the different Socialist Executives who have given themselves in our country “who have worked most in the protection of women and in feminist laws”, while recalling that the Socialist Party “is clearly positioned in this matter”.
Negationism and the extreme right
The Head of the Coordination Unit against Violence against Women, Laura Segura, for her part, wanted to make it clear that “what endangers women’s lives is negationism and agreeing with extreme right-wing parties and sending messages that deny gender violence and do not point to those who are the real culprits of these situations of violence, who are the abusers.”
In fact, he wanted to send a message of calm to women, given that “they are safe and these messages they are sending from the PP the only thing they are getting is for women to be silent”.
“If they are told that resources do not work, women are not going to report and women have to know that, at the time they file a report, the administrations accompany them and the control bracelets have saved the lives of all the women who have carried it, since they exist,” he said.
The Head of the Unit, who clarified that telematic control bracelets are not used in our city, explained that in Melilla they have been used in cases where the victim or aggressor came from the peninsula.
In any case, he has made it clear that these devices are an essential tool: “Control bracelets save lives. Never in our country has a woman been murdered with a control device installed.”
Segura recalled that, like any technological resource, there may be incidents, but stressed that the improvements introduced by the Ministry of Equality - such as greater coverage, better battery, weight reduction or the extension of use to all women victims of violence - have strengthened their effectiveness and safety.
The Head of the Unit recalled that in Spain an average of 60 women are murdered per year, and that more than 4,000 women have this protection device, while highlighting the VioGén system as an international example in the prevention and protection against gender violence.
“We are a pioneering country in equality and in the prevention of gender violence. Let us stop using the protection and accompaniment of victims as a political weapon,” he concluded.