Fourth meeting of the crisis committee to analyze the 7 sexist murders (and an eighth still unconfirmed), which have left 4 children orphans, committed this month of July and its message is clear: society must raise its voice without a doubt against all types of sexist violence, because this lack of unity and clarity leaves the victims unprotected. "Women should know that the public is with them. That attitude of rejection saves lives."
This has been indicated by the Government delegate against Gender Violence, Victoria Rosell, who has appeared after meeting with the representatives of the autonomous communities (except Asturias and the Basque Country, due to scheduling problems), those of Viogen (Ministry of the Interior) , the Ministry of Justice and the prosecutor of the Gender Violence Chamber, Teresa Peramato. The crisis committee has been chaired by the Acting Minister for Equality, Irene Montero.
Rosell has highlighted the youth of the last three murdered, who were less than 30 years old, (one of them, 22 years old, still unconfirmed), which he considers "significant". "It is very important that young people do not receive messages that downplay gender violence or even deny it" because these messages clearly leave the victims unprotected. Only one of the 7 murdered had filed a complaint against her abuser.
At this point, Rosell has insisted on the need for those around the victims to "get involved" if they detect any sign of abuse, because on many occasions, women do not know how to see it, or are afraid or do not know how to act. "The environment cannot be a cover-up or an accomplice," she has indicated.
The crisis committee believes that it is necessary to delve into prevention to avoid murders and publicize the resources to which victims can turn, such as the 016 telephone number, the purple dots, health centers, social services, and the police. "You have to act beforehand, to prevent the murder. The penal system can only act when the crime occurs," Rosell explained.
Along these lines, the former Government delegate against Gender Violence Miguel Lorente has opted for specific campaigns to stop the increase in sexist murders each summer and has warned of a denialism that empowers the abuser and the imitation effect: "Now there are men thinking to kill his wife."
In statements to Efe, Lorente has analyzed the figures of sexist violence of a black July for which the Ministry of Equality has convened the crisis committee for this Tuesday and has pointed out that summer and Christmas are periods of special risk because the living habits.
In the case of couples, they spend more time together, which generates an increase in family problems that clashes with the absence of routines that stop these arguments, such as having to go to work or take the children to school.
"The fact that there are no pauses makes it easier for the violence to continue," said Lorente, who has stressed that it is an increase in cases that is repeated every year.
When talking about ex-partners in whom cohabitation no longer exists, Lorente explained that men who are willing to murder their former partners do follow-up work, "because they feel that they are their property", which is complicated because you go out and travel more.
"Then they lose control, they feel that they will not be able to recover them and, since they believe they are theirs, they kill them from the idea of possession," explains this forensic doctor.
