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The Spanish call it violencia de género. This year, 44 Spanish women lost their life. Six women have perished in the midst of a rising tide that will see 2025 end.
Jennifer is the newest.
This 30-year-old Colombian had settled into a small town named El Viso del Alcor halfway between Sevilla, and Carmona.
Ismael, her partner, stabbed her and then set fire to their house on Saturday 6 December. She is survived by a daughter, aged 11 years. The child was not in the room when the incident occurred.
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In the same week, in Torrijos (a town near Toledo) a 39-year-old woman was killed by her ‘ex’.
Rosemery asked for assistance in October. She contacted the Torrijas Women’s Centre. However, she did not go as far as to report her ex-partner to the police. Rosemery’s three minor children are now without a mother.
Another fatality occurred in Alicante the day before Rosemery’s death.
Neighbours raised the alarm at five in the afternoon on 2 December when they heard screams coming from the home of Oriana on the calle Cánovas del Castillo. Her brother in law attended the scene.
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Knowing that Oriana had filed for a divorce recently, he opened the door. He found two bodies – her husband had murdered her and then hanged himself.
María Ángeles had two teenage children. She herself was 45. On the last November day, her partner cut off her throat before he jumped from the roof.
Though she was entered on the ‘VioGen’ register (Spain’s system for monitoring violence against women), she had not been considered a high risk. She had not made any specific complaints against her partner.
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Back in Andalucía, in Campillos, Concha was strangled to death by her partner on 26 November. They were both in the 20s. Concha left her marital home several months earlier, which makes this murder even more disturbing.
She was with her dad at the time. The killer seems to have waited till her father left the house before taking revenge inside.
As we all know, age is not a defining factor when it comes to violencia de género. María Victoria was 60 years old when, two weeks ago, her neighbours phoned 112 (the generic emergency number).
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They had heard banging and screaming emerging from her house on calle Trébol in Rincón de la Victoria, just outside Málaga. When emergency services arrived, María was already dead.
Spain had been doing pretty well until this horrific two-week wave. Only 42 women had been killed this year (forgive the irony of ‘only’), compared to 47 at the same point in 2024.
The police now believe that 2025 could end up as the worst decade in terms of crime.
Jennifer’s house in El Viso del Alcor, where she died
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