The Ministry of Equality has convened for this Monday, September 4, the crisis committee to analyze the six crimes due to gender violence registered in the month of August.
If the latest murders that took place this Sunday, one in Seville and another in Jaén, are confirmed as cases of gender violence, the number of women murdered this summer would rise to 18, one of the most tragic in sexist violence in the last 20 years. .
The figures for the months of July and August are the highest of the entire year 2023, since until now it was January, the month in which there is also a Christmas holiday period, the one that recorded the highest number of cases with a total of seven. The rest of the months of the year record lower figures, such as February and March with two deaths, April and June with four and May with five.
As reported by the acting Minister of Equality, Irene Montero, in an interview on TVE collected by Europa Press, the committee “will analyze case by case to see how this institutional response can be improved to always arrive on time.”
Montero recalled that the summer months, Christmas and other vacation periods are the darkest for sexist violence as coexistence intensifies. “These are moments of special risk and that is why we insist to all citizens, not just women, that we can all do something for a victim when we believe, suspect or know for sure that she is suffering a situation of sexist violence.”
