SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 10 Jan. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Canary Islands have accumulated a total of 102 sexist murders -after the one that occurred on Sunday night in Adeje of a 46-year-old woman at the hands of her ex-partner and in the presence of her children- since 2003, when the calculation began official and in accordance with Law 16/2003, of April 8, on the Prevention and Comprehensive Protection of Women against Gender Violence of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands.
The Government of the Canary Islands has called this Tuesday a minute of silence at the offices of the Presidency, with the presence of the president, Ángel Víctor Torres, and the Minister of Social Rights, Noemí Santana, in Gran Canaria, and the director of the Canary Islands Institute of Equality , Kika Fumero, in Tenerife.
During the act, the manifesto of condemnation of the Government of the Canary Islands will be read with the aim of keeping in mind the reason for the daily fight against sexist violence and that “silence will never again be the answer to a case of sexist murder”, collects Executive note.
The alleged murderer, a 44-year-old man of Moroccan origin, is being held at the Civil Guard and awaiting trial.
