New alleged case of vicarious violence. It is the hypothesis that is gaining more and more strength in the open investigation to explain the death of two minor girls, aged 4 and 2, and their father, whose bodies were discovered last night in a farmhouse in Las Alcubillas, a district of just 40 residents belonging to the Almeria municipality of Alboloduy.
It was the girls' mother, separated from the alleged aggressor after a time of suffering abuse, who found the dramatic scene and alerted the Civil Guard.
The first indications suggest that the 35-year-old man would have murdered his daughters by poisoning them and then would have taken his own life by ingesting the same toxic substance, although we must wait for the autopsy of the three bodies to confirm this.
It is the Civil Guard who has taken over the investigation of this crime and the first to arrive at the scene, where 061 paramedics were also deployed and could do nothing to save the girls.
Around 10:30 p.m., the mother, 23 years old and of Romanian origin, alerted Benemérita about the event. Her father, also Romanian, from whom she was separated and who had a restraining order against her for mistreatment, would have poisoned her daughters, who died inside the house where they would have spent the weekend. with the man.
For its part, the Government Delegation against Gender Violence, dependent on the Ministry of Equality and responsible for statistics on sexist violence, reported this Monday that it is analyzing the crime data and that, if its sexist nature is confirmed, it would be 54 minors murdered by their fathers or their mothers' partners or ex-partners in Spain since 2013.
It was the subdelegate of the Government in Almería, José María Martín, who confirmed that the mother of the minors, 23 years old, was included in the protection system for victims of gender violence, Viogén. "She is an element that must be considered in the investigation," he stated in statements to the media.
Specifically, according to sources from the investigation, the man was arrested in May 2022 after a complaint from the woman, who, while pregnant, had suffered some type of physical violence. At the current time, the man had a restraining order in force with respect to the mother of the little girls, but not with respect to them.
The subdelegate of the Government in Almería has regretted this news with "deep sadness" while pointing out the investigative work carried out by the Civil Guard, a sense in which he has been "cautious" until all aspects of the case can be confirmed.
For his part, the president of the Provincial Council of Almería, Javier Aureliano García, has also conveyed the "dismay" that this case has produced and, through a note on the social network of the people of Almeria" to the family and neighbors of the municipality.
The news has shocked the residents of the municipalities of Gérgal and Alboloduy, towns to which the district of Las Alcubillas belonged, where the mayors are already studying the possibility of celebrating a minute of silence in rejection of the crime committed.
"He was the worst abuser," said the mayor of Gérgal, Antonia Contreras, who confirmed that the couple lived for approximately a year and a half in the municipality's station once the two girls had been born, while the smallest of them newborn. The first mayor of Gergal has thus pointed out the situation of "total abuse" that the woman experienced, and for her protection she was admitted to a shelter. "She then went to Abla, where she found work," in a cafeteria and where she took her daughters, she explained.
"What we don't understand is how this abuser, who has been a total abuser, could have the two girls so small," said Contreras, who pointed out that the city council itself has had to alert the Civil Guard on occasions because of of the "beatings" suffered by the woman. "We girls don't know that she had ever attacked him," she explained.
For her part, the mayor of Alboloduy, Sonia Guil, has stated that the residents of this small town have been "in shock" upon learning of the violent death of two girls, aged two and four, at the hands of their father, and has regretted that they had not been "able to foresee something like that. "How is it possible?" asked Guil, who stressed that if a situation of abuse "is already difficult for a person who has his family and friends by his side," "you have to imagine what it is like for "People who are so alone, they don't have a support network."
Guil has pointed out that the "real information" is that she "left the girls with the father" and that, when she went to "pick them up, she found them poisoned and the father unconscious, although the health services" of 061 who went "to "they couldn't do anything to save his life."
Abla, the place where the mother lived with the little ones for a couple of years, has declared three days of mourning. This has been confirmed by Javier Sánchez, mayor of the town, who has reported that the mother "had suffered mistreatment, had a restraining order from her ex-partner and came fleeing with her girls to take refuge from him in Abla, where a search was being made for life," said Sánchez, who does not know why the minors - one of whom was in school - were out of town with their father last night.
The first mayor, who has contacted the woman to convey his condolences and found her "in a state of shock", has indicated that from the town he governs "we are going to help her in everything we can", since he has announced that he is A rally and the reading of a manifesto are scheduled to be held at 1 p.m. in the Plaza del Consistorio.
"It is unbearable," the president of the Andalusian Government, Juanma Moreno, said about this crime and the sexist murder that took place in Malaga this weekend.
In statements to journalists in Malaga, the Andalusian leader expressed his "pain and stupor" at these cases, "completely incomprehensible" events. "This is unbearable, and I believe that we must put aside political differences, nuances or ideological differences and make a true state policy in the fight against this scourge," said the president.
In his opinion, sexist and vicarious violence cannot be "a matter to throw pieces at each other's heads," but rather "we must all start working together and place this issue as state policy." "This requires the majority effort of society as a whole, of all institutions, such as city councils, councils, autonomous communities and the central government, and, of course, of all parties," he said.
For the president, it is "unbearable that in 2024 we still have to see news like what we have seen yesterday and today." He has expressed that he feels "devastated, because it is very painful" to see these cases in Andalusia, although "it also hurts me exactly the same when it is in another community, but such hard, sad and unfair situations affect me more closely."
