A man amputated his wife’s hand a week ago. He grabbed a machete and cut off her hand. He fled. He was arrested. Approach, environment, result. He amputated his hand, like thieves in countries without law or rights. It happened in Santa Coloma de Gramenet. There were no, or there were, prior complaints, as if it were a thermometer in this violent and unscientific world that does not understand reliable projections or logical analysis. After the daily vomiting of cases, today here, tomorrow there, where is this mutilated woman who survived today and how she is afraid that next time it will be more than the hand.
How do the two children who saw their father shoot their mother, aunt and grandmother in Galicia in 2019 live? What happened to the guy who crashed his ex’s car with his family inside in Mallorca or to Itziar, who killed his two daughters in Castellón. Who had to flee or quit their jobs. Who left home, the attacker in Murcia or the victim? How does she hide if she has to take the children to the same school every day? Who now arrives at a police station with tremors to file a complaint that opens the tap of fury? Beyond the highest and most brutal peak of gender violence, which is murder, we rarely talk about those who coexist with the daily cabal of fear, namely thousands of women and their families.
