SPANISH folks name it violencia de género. This 12 months in Spain, 44 girls have misplaced their lives. Six have died in a grimly rising tide as 2025 attracts to a detailed.
Jennifer is the newest.
This 30-year-old Colombian girl had settled in a small village named El Viso del Alcor, midway between Sevilla and Carmona.
Last Saturday (6 December), her associate Ismael stabbed her to loss of life and set their house on hearth. She leaves an 11-year-old daughter. The baby was not current throughout the incident.
In the identical week, in Torrijos (a city close to Toledo) a 39-year-old girl was killed by her ‘ex’.
Rosemery had really requested for assist in October, particularly contacting the Torrijas Women’s Centre, however she didn’t go as far as denouncing her former associate to the police. Her three youngsters, all minors, at the moment are motherless.
The day earlier than Rosemery died, there was one other fatality, this time in Alicante.
Neighbours raised the alarm at 5 within the afternoon on 2 December once they heard screams coming from the house of Oriana on the calle Cánovas del Castillo. Her brother-in-law attended the scene.
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Knowing that Oriana (34) had lately filed for divorce, and getting no reply to his shouts, he kicked open the entrance door. He discovered two our bodies – her husband had murdered her after which hanged himself.
María Ángeles had two teenage youngsters. She herself was 45 years previous. On the final day of November, her associate minimize her throat after which threw himself off the roof.
Though she was entered on the ‘VioGen’ register (Spain’s system for monitoring violence towards girls), she had not been thought-about a excessive threat. She had by no means made any particular allegations towards her associate to the police.
Back in Andalucía, in Campillos, Concha was strangled to loss of life by her associate on 26 November. They have been each of their 20s. What makes this killing particularly disagreeable was that Concha had left the marital house some months earlier.
She was dwelling together with her father on the time of the assault. The killer seems to have waited till her father went out in an effort to actual his vengeance inside the daddy’s home.
As everyone knows, age just isn’t a defining issue on the subject of violencia de género. María Victoria was 60 years previous when, two weeks in the past, her neighbours phoned 112 (the generic emergency quantity).
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They had heard banging and screaming rising from her home on calle Trébol in Rincón de la Victoria, simply outdoors Málaga. When emergency companies arrived, María was already lifeless.
Before this appalling two-week wave of violence, Spain wasn’t doing too badly. Only 42 girls had been killed this 12 months (forgive the irony of ‘solely’), in comparison with 47 on the similar level in 2024.
Police now assume that the 2025 determine would possibly find yourself being the worst of the last decade to date.
The home in El Viso del Alcor the place Jennifer died.
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