The Government Delegation against Gender Violence has confirmed as gender violence the murder this Saturday of a woman in the Pontevedra town of Oia, which represents the 21st victim so far this year due to sexist violence in Spain and the 1,205 since Records began in 2003.
In Galicia, this is the second sexist crime that occurred this year after the murder of a woman in Baiona last February for which her ex-partner was arrested.
The fatal victim, Ana Vanessa Serén, 44, was murdered at the gates of the campsite where she allegedly worked at the hands of her ex-partner, a civil guard who hours after the events committed suicide when he was cornered by agents of the Armed Institute in a hill near the crime scene.
The woman had filed a complaint in April and her case was considered “medium risk.” This is how the Government sub-delegate in Pontevedra, Maica Larriba, transferred it this Sunday, at the gates of the campsite where Ana Vanessa worked.
The subdelegate explained that the woman had filed a complaint last April, which led to a speedy trial that concluded with a 300-meter restraining order sentence and a ban on communication with the victim.
After this sentence, Larriba has indicated that the agents of the Civil Guard unit in charge of this type of case intervened on a total of 56 occasions to protect the victim, one of them “very recently”.
In any case, as he explained, this does not mean that the aggressor failed to comply with this sentence, but that it is about “monitoring the victim to verify that the convicted person is not breaking the sentence.” “They are follow-ups. They have nothing to do with the violations. It is something that is done in a normal way, which is part of the protection,” he detailed.
In addition, the subdelegate has ensured that the alleged murderer, a Civil Guard by profession, had his weapons withdrawn and was only paying attention to the public.
Questioned about the weapon of the crime, Larriba has maintained that it is not a regulatory weapon, since, she has insisted, “she did not have access to them”, so “it seems that it is a shotgun or a rifle”.
After confirming it as a case of gender violence, the Government Delegation in Galicia has called a minute of silence, at 12:00, before the headquarters of the institution, in A Coruña.
The Xunta will also host a minute of silence in rejection of this crime at 12:00 at the headquarters of the autonomous administration in San Caetano, in Santiago de Compostela.
In addition, concentrations and minutes of silence of revulsion are planned throughout the Galician geography throughout the day.
