The acting Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, announced this Wednesday that she has convened a new crisis committee, which will meet next Monday, to analyze the sexist murders that have occurred this summer. If the case of Béjar (Salamanca) that was known this Wednesday is confirmed, they would be six the victims of the month of august.
Montero made this announcement in an interview on TVE in which he assured that the alleged sexist murder of a 40-year-old woman in Béjar, “is a case that is not formally confirmed. It is under investigation.”
In line with this news, the acting head of Equality took advantage of the interview to “send all my love and condolences to this woman’s family and friends” and recalled that so far this year they are already 38 women murdered by their partners or ex-partners.
For this reason, he appealed to society in general because “we can always do something for the victim” and recalled that “summer, like Christmas, is when you live more with the abuser and the risk to victim”.
Montero reiterated the existence of 016, an information telephone for victims of gender violence, which “serves in 53 languages, every day of the year, 24 hours a day.” He also pointed out that women have to know that they have the right to receive information, psychological attention and accompaniment “even if they do not report their abuser.”