A 44-year-old woman was found murdered this Tuesday, apparently stabbed to death, in a home in l’Alfàs del Pi (Alicante) and her romantic partner is being sought as the alleged perpetrator of the crime.
Sources in the case have informed EFE that the murder must have occurred on the night of Sunday to Monday, although the lifeless body of the victim, Spanish as well as the alleged aggressor and with two children from a previous partner, has not been found by the police. Civil Guard until noon this Tuesday inside the home they shared, on Figuera Street in the urban area.
Until the alleged murderer is captured, it cannot be confirmed whether it is sexist violence, but all police hypotheses point in that direction, according to the same sources, who have added that the victim and the alleged murderer shared a home, and that he had a criminal record. previous abuse of a previous partner.
The man is 52 years old and works in the area of ??l’Alfàs, while the murdered woman was employed in a store in nearby Benidorm. Both he and the victim were separated from previous romantic relationships and each of them had two children from those previous stages.
The small coastal municipality of l’Alfàs del Pi, located between Benidorm and Altea, has declared three days of mourning for this crime and its mayor, Vicente Arques, has already conveyed his condolences to the family and people close to the victim for “this brutal aggression.”
In a statement, the mayor said he was “terribly shocked” and maintained that “the barbarity of violence against women cannot be allowed to continue.”
The Ministry of Equality is investigating the death of the 44-year-old woman as an alleged sexist crime. If confirmed, she would be the third victim of gender violence this year and the 1,243rd since 2003, when data began to be collected.
Added to this case is another one under investigation in the province of Valencia after the discovery of the lifeless body of a 49-year-old woman. The Civil Guard located the lifeless body in the victim’s home, although there were no signs of violence there, as confirmed by sources from the armed institute.
This past Thursday, the Government Delegation against Gender Violence confirmed the case of the 45-year-old woman found without signs of life in a vehicle in Girona, who died on January 27. Equality also confirmed the murder of a 56-year-old woman due to gender violence.
The Alfàs del Pi City Council has declared three days of official mourning for the alleged sexist murder and has shown the town’s “most resounding condemnation” of this “brutal aggression.”
The mayor, Vicente Arques, has conveyed his condolences to the family and people close to the victim, while calling for the “seamless unity of the entire society against this scourge.” “We want to express the strongest condemnation of the alleged sexist murder of our neighbor. We are terribly dismayed by this brutal attack,” he said.
In the face of this “such tragedy,” he added, “all that remains is to appeal to the need to work unanimously to end these social dramas.” “We cannot allow the barbarity of violence against women to continue, and we will continue to allocate all possible resources to the eradication of gender violence, a major obstacle to the inclusive and equitable development of our society,” he stressed. .
