The City Council of Totana strongly condemns and shows its institutional revulsion for the new case of gender violence in Posadas (Córdoba), the fourteenth recorded so far in 2020 in Spain.
A 69-year-old man killed his 67-year-old ex-wife in this Cordovan municipality yesterday with a white weapon;
and later, he tried to take the life of a shot.
The event happened at 11:45, when the woman went to the family home to pick up some household goods.
The couple had been separated for a year, although they had lived in the same house until a month ago, when she decided to move.
Both are neighbors of Posadas and the victim was an active person in associative movements of the town and well known among their neighbors, they have confirmed from the Town Hall of the town.
The man, who is injured "very seriously" by a small-caliber firearm, has been taken to the Reina Sofía hospital in Córdoba.
Sources close to the investigation have confirmed that the removal of the body was carried out around three in the afternoon and that it has been transferred to the Institute of Legal Medicine of Córdoba to perform the autopsy.
After a call from the neighbors around 12:00 hours, the Civil Guard agents moved to the woman's home, as well as the Local Police and health professionals who have evacuated the injured man to the hospital.
According to the first advances in the investigation, there are no previous complaints of gender violence.
In more than 70% of cases of death from sexist violence, women had not reported;
a percentage that grows in older victims, up to 92% of cases registered since 2003.
If confirmed, this murder would increase the number of women killed by sexist violence in Spain to 14 in 2020 and 1,047 since there are official records, in 2003, according to statistics from the Government Delegation against Gender Violence.
Telephone 016 serves all victims of sexist violence 24 hours a day and in 51 languages.
It leaves no trace on the invoice, but it must be deleted from the mobile phone's call log.
Minors can also go to the Anar Foundation phone (900 20 20 10).
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.
