“Unfortunately, this was a victim who had no history of reporting her ex-partner. A terrible misfortune that we have to condemn all of society,” Pestana told reporters after observing a minute of silence in protest at the alleged murder of the victim. young man, 34 years old, in the street of Santa Cruz de Tenerife supposedly at the hands of his ex-partner, already arrested.
With the death of Abigail, as she was called, there are already 26 victims of gender-based violence in Spain so far this yearalthough this figure reaches 1,156 women and 47 children murdered in this context since 2003 –when official records began to be kept–, leaving 356 orphans.
For Pestana, this is an “evil” that Spanish society has and the central government has put a social “problem” on the table, “of a change in mentality, of recognizing that something is not working well”, and that it must be tackled with the “work of professionals, of the different administrations that also try to alleviate” these issues, as well as in educational matters “change these mentalities”.
He added that until this change in mentality “is not” achieved, they will “continue to suffer and that is why they try to link all possible resources to protect the victims.”
