The City Council strongly condemns and shows its institutional revulsion for the already six known cases of gender violence during the year 2020 in Spain, the last one this past weekend and confirmed as such during yesterday.
So far this year, six women have already been killed in Spain by their partners or former partners, a chilling figure that can trigger the number of first-quarter murders over the same time period last year.
The last case was this weekend a man of 81 years, who has killed his wife, 79, and then committed suicide by throwing himself through the window of the house in which both lived in A Pastoriza (Lugo).
It was a granddaughter of the couple who spent 20:00 on Saturday went to the house, located in the parish of Crecente, and located the bodies.
Apparently, the woman was found dead inside the house with a heavy blow to the head, which could be the cause of death.
Likewise, the octogenarian's body was found outside the house.
Possibly, sources close to the investigation indicate, he tried to cut himself with a knife and then rushed through a window to take his own life.
According to information from 112 Galicia, the events occurred around 8:00 p.m. on Saturday afternoon;
and to the place went Urxencias Sanitarios-061, the Civil Guard, the Autonomous Police and the National Police.
In addition, the alarm was given to a team of psychologists in case their intervention was necessary, although finally their assistance was not required.
According to the Government Delegation in Galicia, there was no record of abuse or precautionary measures in the couple.
The event is investigated as a case of sexist violence, so if confirmed as such, it would be the first of 2020 in this community and the sixth in all of Spain.
The Consistory totanero emphasizes the need to work together to stop and end this social scourge so that the need to raise awareness from education to avoid behaviors that incite inequality between men and women is stressed.
Against gender violence, a common front of "Zero Tolerance" must be made;
because not only people who die murdered at the hands of their partners must be remembered, but also those who suffer every day in their homes any type of physical or psychological violence.
