He stabbed his partner, who was seven months pregnant, several times in Fuente Palmera (Córdoba), and fled. Now, the Civil Guard and the National Police are looking for him to arrest him for this new case of sexist violence.
For her part, the woman, who was able to travel to the local health center on her own, was transferred to the Reina Sofía University Hospital in the capital of Córdoba where she remains hospitalized. The victim received a stab wound in the stomach and another that affected her colon, although it has been confirmed that both her life and that of the baby are not in danger.
For her part, the counselor Social Inclusion, Youth, Families and Equality of the Junta de Andalucía, Loles López, has provided all her support and the necessary resources to the future mother and her family. They are "vomiting" facts, she has described, since she has wanted "the full weight of the law" to fall on the author.
The attack by the man, with whom she had been in a romantic relationship for a year and the father of the unborn baby, took place on December 7 on Segovia and Merceditas streets, according to Diario Córdoba.
After being stabbed, the young woman, 21 years old, was able to go to the local health center, located on the same street where she was attacked by the man, who was fleeing the scene after the attack.
Subsequently, she was transferred to the Reina Sofía Hospital in Córdoba, where she remains hospitalized, recovering from her injuries, without fear for her life, while the fetus is also out of danger.
At the expense of clarifying the event and for the Government Delegation to determine if we are facing a new case of gender violence, Loles López, Minister of Equality, today condemned these "vomiting" events. Despite the need to remain "cautious", the head of the area has regretted the "clear and painful" intention of the aggressor. "Let the full weight of the law fall on him," she expressed.
"The important thing right now is that she is recovering and the baby is fine," López commented, while pointing out that "we have offered her family our binomial and we are available for whatever they need at any time."
A few days before the end of 2023, the chilling number of murdered women reaches 55. You have to go back to 2019 to find a similar record, when 56 victims perished at the hands of their partners or ex-partners.
From the global count, data extracted from the statistics published by the Ministry of Equality, 16 of these women were killed in Andalusia throughout this year, becoming the region with the most deaths from sexist crimes in all of Spain, ahead from Catalonia (with 9 murdered due to gender violence), Madrid (7 deaths) and the Valencian Community (6 victims).
On the other hand, it is in the south where the most complaints of sexist violence have been filed in 2023 (19,408) and where the most protection orders have been activated (4,095). In fact, according to the data consulted by this newspaper, there are currently 22,248 cases from the community registered in the Viogén System (Comprehensive Monitoring System in cases of Gender Violence), 13,361 of which are women who need police protection.
