This noon has been observed a minute of silence at the gates of Benidorm City Hall in rejection of a new sex crime. For the third time this week, the municipal corporation, with its mayor, Toni Pérez, and the councilor of Equality, Paquita Ripoll, in the lead, along with other members of the corporation and neighbors, have shown their strongest rejection of this social scourge .
In addition to the members of the municipal corporation, the Councilor for Citizen Security, Lorenzo Martínez and the Police Coordination Table on Gender-based Violence participated in the act of rejection, which was holding a working meeting at that time. Benidorm City Council and they made a break to join the minute of silence. At the head of them was the head of the Unit against Violence against Women of the Government Sub-delegation in Alicante, Purificación Algaba.
With this minute of silence, Benidorm has paid tribute to a 47-year-old woman from O Porriño (Pontevedra) who lost her life yesterday after her partner, 56, murdered her with a hunting rifle. The man who, together with the woman, planned to sign the divorce agreement, later committed suicide.