Minute of silence in Benidorm for the first victim of gender violence in 2018

Benidorm City Council has held a minute of silence this afternoon in memory of the first victim of gender violence in Spain in 2018. With the mayor of Benidorm, Toni Pérez, and the councilor of Equality, Paquita Ripoll, in head, representatives of the municipal groups, officials, neighbors and tourists have shown in this way their strongest rejection of this social scourge.

A woman of Venezuelan origin, 47 years old and neighbor of Santa Cruz de Tenerife was allegedly murdered by her ex-husband, 69, with whom she was seeking a divorce. The victim had already reported the aggressor beforehand. After committing the crime, the man had a traffic accident when fleeing the security forces and bodies, being seriously injured and today remains in hospitalization in police custody.

Spain ended 2017 with a tragic list of 49 women murdered because of gender violence, a year that has also left 27 children orphaned. From the Department of Equality, Paquita Ripoll has insisted once again that gender violence "we must defeat it among all" and has reiterated that the City Council will continue with its "active policies until the end", while remembered the existence of the number of attention to victims, the 016, which leaves no trace on the telephone bill.