The International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, celebrated every November 25, comes this year after a tragic weekend during which two possible sexist murdersone of them particularly bloody due to the age of the attacker and the victim: 17 and 15 years oldrespectively.
In view of these two cases – still waiting for the authorities to officially confirm their sexist nature – it is already There are 42 women murdered by their partners or ex-partners so far this year. Crimes to which are added the murders of eight children for indirect violence also since January.
This same Sunday, 15 p.m. eve, a 48-year-old man murdered his wife46 years old, in the Sevillian town of Estepa, before committing suicide with the same firearm he allegedly used to commit the crime. The couple had two children aged 11 and 17. Subsequently, the arrest of a 17-year-old minor for the murder of his ex-girlfriendonly 15 years old, who had broken off their relationship a few days before.
Added to these two cases is that of a 42-year-old man. arrested in Tenerife for trying to kill his wife33 years old, whom he attacked with a knife in the presence of their one-year-old daughter.
A shocking weekend which is already accompanied by a terrible figure: 40 women murdered by their partner or ex-partner and eight minors victims of indirect crimes so far in 2024. In this context, according to data collected by the Efe agency, every day in our country, more than 560 complaints are filed for gender-based violence and 55 for sexual violence, including 13 for rape.
Scary numbers
Without taking into account the last two crimes investigated by the Government Delegation against Gender Violence, 40 women have been murdered by their partner or ex-partner so far this year and 1,285 offenses since 2003. Following these feminicides, 463 boys and girls became orphans since 2013.
By the autonomous communities, Andalusia -the most populous- is the one which recorded the greatest number of assassinations (266, not counting Estepa), followed by Catalonia (211), the Valencian Community (162, for lack of adding Orihuela), the Community of Madrid (134), the Canary Islands (83), Galicia (71), Castilla y León (64), Castilla-La Mancha ( 59), Basque Country (42), Balearic Islands (41), Region of Murcia (35), Aragon (34), Asturias (29), Foral Community of Navarra (15), Extremadura (12), Cantabria (11), La Rioja (8), Melilla (5) and Ceuta (3).
From 2022, the Government Delegation also produces statistics on feminicides outside the context of the couple or the ex-partner. In 2022 and the first half of 2024, 62 women were murdered simply for being one. In 36 cases, the attacker was a family member, in 17 cases an acquaintance, and the other nine femicides were of a sexual nature.
Violence against the sons and daughters of female victims is also a form of gender-based violence. Because of indirect violence, eight minors have been murdered in Spain this year. Since 2013, there have been 61 indirect crimes against minors, the vast majority perpetrated by their own parents, or 88.5%.
In Spain, more than 2.34 million complaints have been filed for gender violence since 2009. In the second quarter of this year, the latest period for which data is available, 561 daily complaints23 every hour.
The Ministry of the Interior also records a gradual increase in the number of complaints for sexual violence in recent years: if in 2022 there were 32 daily complaints for sexual offenses and 10 for rape, in the first half of 2024 there were already 55 daily . complaints for sexual assault and 13 for rape.
