First year of collecting data on murders of women apart from those committed by partners or ex-partners, a commitment from the Ministry of Equality. According to data provided by the Government Delegation against Gender Violence this morning, 34 women were murdered outside of that framework, and all of them were at the hands of men they knew.
In fact, according to the data provided, 13 women were murdered by their children, 3 by their grandchildren, 1 by their father, and another 4 by other relatives (nephew, brother-in-law, uncle, and son-in-law, in the case of family violence that It rises to 21 murders, 76% of the murders were committed by their descendants.
Regarding social violence, 9 women have been murdered. In five cases, the assailant was a neighbor, in 2 they were roommates, and in 2 other acquaintances.
Four other women (two of them, 14 years old) have been murdered after being sexually assaulted and in these cases, the attackers were known to the victim.
Although it is not possible to make comparisons between the murders of women in the sphere of couples and the rest of feminicides, since the data for the latter are “new”, the reality is that last year they were murdered due to gender violence as a whole 83 women and all of them, at the hands of a known person.
In 91% of the cases of femicides there were no previous complaints, quite the opposite of what happens with gender violence within the couple or ex-partner (more than 40%, of the 49 women murdered in 2022).
“There is a level of tolerance within the family. Much remains to be done in other forms of violence against women. Much has been achieved with the issue of gender violence, but awareness must be increased regarding the rest,” Victoria Rosell, Government delegate against Gender Violence, has pointed out.
Rosell wanted to make it clear that there is no increase in murders against women or more violence. There is the one that has always existed, but that now emerges due to a greater social awareness and the commitment of “this feminist government” in which these “black bags” come out.
Rosell has insisted that Spain is a pioneer country not only in accounting for violence against women and that brings out “what is there, what has always existed.” And she recalls that according to a 2019 survey on sexual violence, 92% of sexual assaults are not reported.
