The Department of Equality of the Totana City Council condemns and regrets the death of the last victim of gender violence that occurred in Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz).The National Police are investigating the death with a hammer of a 53-year-old woman at the hands of her 55-year-old partner.
The alleged murderer, who tried unsuccessfully to commit suicide, has been arrested.The events occurred yesterday in a house on Justicia Street, in the central neighborhood of San Mateo.
Neighbors alerted the agents by phone, alerted by the screams they heard from a heated argument.
When the police arrived at the building, she, a woman in a wheelchair, was already dead.The investigation is open as a new case of sexist violence.
The alleged perpetrator of the hammer blows has had to be transferred to a health center after injuring himself with the ingestion of pills.
It is expected that in the next few hours, it will go to court.
According to police sources, the attacker and the victim were Romanian nationals and lived in an occupied house.From the Department of Equality it is reiterated that all of society must keep its guard up to eradicate this scourge, which is absolutely intolerable; while demanding all the measures and all the necessary resources for an effective protection of women, the involvement of all, civil society and public institutions to end this social scourge.
