Flora, Conchi, Alicia... the faces of gender violence in 2021

Flora, Conchi, Alicia, Jordina, Paula... are some of the 44 women fatalities of gender-based violence in 2021. An unacceptable figure for a democratic society, despite being the lowest recorded since 2003, when they began accounting for sexist crimes. Since that year, 1,126 women have been murdered by their partners or ex-partners.

The minors Isabel, Mohamed, Anna, Olivia, Leo, an 11-month-old baby, and Abril, have not seen the arrival in 2022 either, murdered by their parents or their mothers' partners. Seven girls and boys victims of vicarious violence, the cruelest, the one whose objective is to harm and destroy women through the damage inflicted on the people she loves the most, mainly her daughters and sons. Since 2013, the first year for which there is data, 46 minors have been murdered in sexist crimes.

In addition, the aggressors of the 43 women murdered in 2021 have orphaned 30 minor girls and boys (the older ones are not included in the statistics), a figure that rises to 336 since 2013.

Of the 44 women murdered the year that just ended, presumably at the hands of their partners or ex-partners, 24 were Spanish and 20 foreigners, while of the 44 aggressors who perpetrated the crimes, 36 (82%) were Spanish and 8 foreigners.

Five of the murdered women had a protective order activated. Their killers violated the restraining order and killed them. In all these cases the system failed and was not able to protect them.

Only 10 of the 44 aggressors had previous complaints of abuse: 22 were ex-partners or were breaking up, and another 22 continued to maintain a sentimental relationship with the victims. 13 of the attackers committed suicide, so they cannot be tried for their crimes, and another 6 attempted it.

These are the women, girls and boys murdered in sexist crimes or in acts of vicarious violence in 2021:

1.- FLORA

Laura Plaza de la Flor «Flora», 82 years old and mother of two older children. She was the first fatality of male violence in 2021. On January 17, her husband, Paco C. G., 84, stabbed her to death in her home in Puente de Vallecas in Madrid and then tried to commit suicide.

Flora, born in the Cáceres municipality of Madrigal de la Vera, from which she left more than 50 years ago, had not gone out on the streets for almost two years due to her precarious state of health, had not filed any complaint for gender violence against her husband, who was hospitalized after inflicting several injuries.

When they found her body, Flora had several stab wounds caused by a knife to her abdomen and chest at the level of her heart.

2.- CONCHI

Conchi González, 56 years old and mother of an older daughter and son. She was murdered on February 12 in Sestao (Bizkaia). Her husband, "Juanillo", killed her with an ax and then committed suicide by throwing himself into the estuary.

When they found the body of the attacker, the agents went to give the news to the family and found Conchi's lifeless body.

Conchi had worked as a cook in a bar and as a cleaner at the Amor Misericordioso school where she is remembered with great affection.

3.- ALICIA

Alicia P., 52 years old and mother of four daughters and one son of legal age. She was murdered on February 14 at her house in Majadahonda (Madrid). Her husband, J.A., 62, killed her with a firearm, then barricaded himself in the house and tried to commit suicide.

Her assailant, who was hospitalized, murdered her at dawn in the house where they had lived for more than a decade and where one of the daughters was at that moment, who had to be treated for a mental health crisis. anxiety.

A gender violence team from Majadahonda had interviewed her about the alleged continued mistreatment, but she did not want to file a complaint or identify the aggressor, so she was not registered in the VioGén system.

4.- MARI CARMEN

Mari Carmen M. V., 46 years old and mother of two children aged 21 and 17. She was stabbed to death on March 2 by her ex-partner and father of the children, Julián P.A., 48, in Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid).

Like every day, Mari Carmen went to her job. She was a cleaner for a community of residents of the aforementioned town, the place where the alleged murderer went, who approached her on the landing of the stairs and stabbed her seven times. He then turned himself in to the police.

It had been three years since Mari Carmen had separated from her attacker.

5.- MARI CRUZ AND HER DAUGHTER ISABEL

Mari Cruz Mongelos, 48, and her daughter Isabel, 11, were found dead on March 9 next to her husband's body and the girl's father, Fausto Martín, inside his home in El Molar (Madrid), which had suffered a fire.

According to the investigation, Fausto, a 48-year-old mechanic, shot and killed his wife and daughter, set the house on fire and committed suicide.

Mari Cruz worked in a house in La Moraleja and her daughter Isabel studied at a school in San Agustín del Guadalix. She was the first minor fatality of sexist violence in 2021.

The couple had been living in the same house for several decades, far from the center of the municipality, which meant that no one heard the shots and they called 112 when they saw the smoke coming out of the house.

6.- JORDINA

Jordina Martínez P., 34 years old and mother of two girls, 7 and 4 years old. She was murdered on April 14 in Manresa (Barcelona) by her 40-year-old ex-partner and father of the girls, who attempted suicide after the crime.

A few months ago Jordina had divorced her husband, who went to her ex-partner's house, assaulted her and suffocated her to death with a plastic bag.

The Mossos d'Esquadra arrived shortly after and found the body of the woman with obvious signs of violence. She presented blows in addition to the strangulation that caused her death.

The man was arrested and confessed to the crime.

Jordina had lived in Manresa all her life, where she grew up and studied. Her two daughters were also born there.

She worked in the Youth area of ​​the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs and Family and her neighbors remember her as a very nice woman.

7.- PAULA

Paula M. M., 36 years old. She was murdered by her ex-partner, José Carlos G.D., 28, on April 19 in Mansilla de las Mulas (León).

The assailant went to Paula's home at dawn, broke down the front door, killed her with a strong blow to the head with a blunt object, and turned himself in to the police.

Paula, a native of Mansilla de las Mulas, had ended her relationship with her murderer, with whom she had been with for about two years.

He worked in a company in Leon and due to the confinement he had returned to his hometown and was teleworking.

8.- JOHANA

Johana Andrea Aguilar, 42, mother of one daughter and manager of an agricultural cooperative. She was murdered by her partner on April 22 in Castellón.

Johana went out for a walk and never came back. Her body was found by a man in the surroundings of Camí Vell de la Mar in the Clot area, in Borriana (Castellón), and the Civil Guard opened an investigation to clarify the facts. She was strangled with one of her sports clothing.

Two months later, on June 29, his partner was arrested as a suspect in the murder, which on July 2 was confirmed as a sexist crime.

Johana and her murderer had been living in Borriana (Castellón) for a few months.

9.- PILAR

Pilar, 50 years old. She was murdered by her partner, Cesar, 37, on April 25 in La Bisbal del Penedès (Tarragona). Her killer doused her with gasoline and set her on fire.

She was taken to the hospital, where she died a few hours after the assault as a result of severe burns. Before she died, she had time to explain the facts to the police.

After dousing it with gasoline and setting it on fire, the assailant called the emergency services, warning that his wife had attempted suicide. When the toilets arrived at her home, they found her with severe burns but she was alive. It was then that Pilar was able to explain what had happened. She was transferred by helicopter to a hospital in El Vendrell and from there she was referred to the Vall d'Hebrón Hospital in Barcelona, ​​where she finally died.

The alleged perpetrator accumulates a record for ill-treatment for beating his mother, he was very conflictive and did not allow Pilar to go anywhere alone.

10.- SOLE

María Soledad Moreno Parra, "Sole", 60 years old, mother of a 33-year-old daughter and resident of Port de Sagunt (Valencia). Her throat was slit on May 9 by her ex-partner, Virgilio S., 60, who had a restraining order in force due to coercion and continuous harassment that the victim had denounced.

María Soledad was very afraid, everyone knew it. Days before she was murdered, she had asked the municipal services and the Civil Guard for help, but no one protected her. The system that was supposed to protect her determined that the risk of her suffering an attack was low.

She had been working as a cleaner for a specialized company all her life. One of her favorite places was the caravan that she had fixed at the Estivella campsite. They remember her as a "very good, humble and hard-working" woman.

11.- WARDA AND HER SON MOHAMED

Warda Ouchene, a 28-year-old native of Nador (Morocco) and 4 months pregnant, and her 7-year-old son Mohamed. They were murdered on May 17 at their home in Sa Pobla (Mallorca). Their partner and father of the child, Ali K., 35, strangled them.

Warda, who had been living in Sa Pobla for a decade, had denounced him several times for ill-treatment and had had a protection order that had already expired and after which they had resumed their relationship. He always ended up forgiving him. The first complaints for ill-treatment were filed in 2012.

She was discreet and shy, she barely left her house and when she did it was to take Mohamed to school or to do the shopping.

12.- LUCÍA

Lucía Dotto Domingues, of Brazilian nationality and Portuguese origin, 42 years old, and mother of a 13-year-old boy and a 9-year-old girl. She was murdered on May 18 in Corbera de Llobregat (Barcelona) for his 50-year-old partner, who committed suicide.

It was her son who found her dead in her house when he came home from school.

Lucía was director of the luxury hotel chain Relais Chateaux for Spain and Portugal, a position she took up in 2014 after fifteen years dedicated to tourism. She had been residing with her family in Catalonia for several years.

13.- BETTY

Betty, Colombian, 52 years old, mother of two older children and a cleaner by profession. She was murdered on May 18 in Creixell (Tarragona) by her partner, Manuel, 56, who after stabbing her and firing several shots at her, lived with her corpse for several days until she committed suicide.

One of Betty's children who lives abroad alerted her mother's friends that she was unable to locate her, and they raised the alarm to the police.

The couple had been together for about two years, but they did not live together. She lived in Torredembarra and he in Creixell, 5 kilometers away.

14.- MARÍA TERESA

María Teresa Aladro, "Tere", 48 years old and mother of one son. She was murdered on May 20 in Pola de Laviana (Asturias) by her ex-partner, Senén F., 51, from whom she was divorcing, a process for which she had requested information from the Women's Advisory Center from her town.

Tere had been living in Pola de Laviana for more than a decade and had been separated from her murderer and father of her son for several months.

At dawn, the assailant went to Tere's home and shot her twice in the back with his hunting rifle. He then he was arrested.

15.- KATIA

Katia, 35 years old and mother of a 12-year-old boy. She was stabbed to death by her ex-partner, Ruben C. R., 32, on May 23 in a Saragossa.

The assailant had a restraining order in effect that he had previously violated. After murdering her he attempted suicide.

16.- NICOLETA CLARA

Nicoleta Clara, of Romanian origin and 41 years old. She was stabbed on May 29 in the middle of the street in Alovera (Guadalajara) by her ex-partner, Álvaro, 54, whom she had denounced in 2006.

The couple was married for more than a decade, after which Clara had decided to separate due to the continuous episodes of abuse. Months later she decided to give him another chance and he murdered her. After killing her, he confessed to the crime.

Nicoleta Clara, who worked in a textile company, came to Spain with her parents and siblings when she was 20 years old.

17.- ALLA

Alla Bukancova, of Latvian origin and 48 years old. She was murdered on June 3 in her house in Porqueres (Girona) by her partner, Miguel Ángel, 45, after an argument that ended in a stabbing. Hours later, the murderer, with a history of violent robberies, turned himself in to the Mossos d'Esquadra.

Alla had been in Spain for more than a decade, spoke Catalan and Spanish perfectly, and had worked at a gas station in the area, as a cleaner, and in a candy factory. They remember her as a cheerful, open and friendly woman.

18.- ROCÍO

Rocío Caíz Pozo, 17 years old and mother of a four-month-old baby. She was murdered on June 3 in Estepa (Seville) by her ex-partner and father of the baby, Adrián, 23, who confessed to the crime.

The young woman was missing for a week until her attacker confessed that he stabbed her to death the same day she disappeared and dismembered her with a chainsaw, after which he distributed her remains throughout various areas of the Seville municipality of Estepa.

After murdering her, the attacker sent several messages from Rocío's cell phone to the young woman's relatives in which he said that she had gone to the province of Badajoz with a young man she had met months before.

Her family stated that episodes of abuse were common. On occasions the adolescent had presented injuries and even a broken nose.

On the 3rd, she traveled 28 kilometers from her town, Martín de la Jara, to her ex-boyfriend's house, in Estepa, to look for a stroller for the baby. He made the journey in a taxi paid for by his ex-partner. The driver was the last person to see her alive.

19.- INMACULADA

Inmaculada Nzang Mba Oyana, a 43-year-old native of Equatorial Guinea and mother of three older children. She was beaten to death on June 5 in Roquetas de Mar (Almería) by her partner, who had previous complaints of gender violence.

Inmaculada was with some friends in an apartment when, shortly before 9 o'clock, someone called her on the phone and she left the house after telling her friends that a friend had called her and that she would be back soon.

She had told her friends that the day before her ex-partner had followed her down the street and was harassing her. When she went down to the street, the assailant beat her to death. A witness stated that he had seen a man hit her on the head.

The alleged murderer, who was arrested, had previous complaints and a restraining order for mistreating Inmaculada, who was registered in the protection system for victims of gender violence (VioGén).

20.- KATHERINE

Katherine Mary Brereton Travers, 59-year-old English mother of four older children and a resident of Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid) for years. She was assassinated on June 6 by her ex-partner, Jorge Juliá Díez de Rivera, a 66-year-old retired pilot, from whom she had separated.

The alleged killer shot him in the chest with a shotgun and later committed suicide.

Katherine was a flight attendant and had recently returned from the United Kingdom to her home in the Somosaguas urbanization where her ex-partner lived, who killed the woman with a hunting rifle that the police found at the home.

The noise of the shots alerted the security guard of the urbanization who notified the police. The corpses were lying in the garden.

21.- ALICIA

Alicia Rodríguez, 36-year-old journalist from Huelva. She was murdered on June 12 in Marmolejo (Jaén) at the hands of her partner, 35-year-old Manuel Q. S, who ran over her and tried to pretend it was an accident.

Alicia was run over on a rural road in Marmolejo. The crime took place around 3:30 a.m. in a place near the municipal cemetery, where the 112 services went, alerted by a call from a man who had allegedly witnessed the outrage.

The health services mobilized an ambulance but could only certify his death. Since then, in addition to the version of the accident, the police were considering the possibility that it was a case of male violence, as was finally confirmed. Manuel Q. S was arrested that same night.

Alicia worked as a cameraman, editor and producer for the local television, Teleonuba. She was very loved and an excellent professional with more than fifteen years of experience in the audiovisual sector.

22.- CONSUELO

Consuelo M. L., seamstress, 81 years old and mother of three older children. She was murdered with a hammer on June 15 in the Moratalaz neighborhood (Madrid) by her husband, Eduardo G. G., 84 years old.

Around eight o'clock in the evening, the neighbors heard how Consuelo was screaming asking her husband to stop hitting her. When the health services arrived at Consuelo's house, she had a severe head injury, she was transferred in serious condition to the Doce de Octubre Hospital where she died hours later as a result of the seriousness of the injuries.

Her assailant, who opened the door for the police, was calm and did not hesitate to admit the facts. He showed no signs of regret.

The officials tried to contain the bleeding that the old woman presented until the arrival of the Samur-Civil Protection. Intubated, the health workers took her with notice to Doce de Octubre, where she could not do anything to save her life.

23.- AFRICA

África Cuadrado, 56 years old and mother of two daughters. She was stabbed in front of one of her daughters on June 21 by her husband, José Javier C.F., 58, at his home in Valladolid, where, despite being in separation proceedings, they were confined by separate positive in coronavirus.

It was the daughter who alerted the emergency services.

At the home, officers found the victim with multiple stab wounds to the chest. Ella África was still alive when they arrived and she was taken by ambulance to the city's Clinical Hospital, where she died hours later. The attacker was arrested.

24.- SUSANNY MATELLANE

Susanny Matellane, 34-year-old Dominican and mother of two daughters, ages 11 and 4. She was stabbed by her husband, Serafín H., "El Sera", 69, in her home in Doñinos de Salamanca at dawn on June 22 and, as a result of the serious injuries, died on June 29 in Salamanca Hospital Complex.

The victim remained in the ICU for a week and underwent various operations, but the serious damage he suffered to vital organs caused his death.

In the violent episode, a 68-year-old brother of the attacker was also slightly injured, who tried to prevent the attack.

It was not the first time that the criminal, father of the youngest girl, attacked his partner with whom he had been in a relationship for six years. She had never reported him, but the attacker had a history of gender violence with another woman whom he tried to stab.

25.- HAZNA

Hazna A., of Moroccan origin, 35 years old and mother of 3 children aged 12, 6 and 1. She was murdered on June 30 at her home in Barbastro (Huesca) by her ex-partner, Abderramán, 43, from whom she was separating and whom she had denounced for mistreatment.

The alleged assailant, father of the three children, killed her in front of the minors.

Five years earlier, Hazna had denounced him for ill-treatment and a restraining order was imposed on him that was no longer in force and the victim was not registered in the VioGén system.

The assailant, who lived in Monzón, went to Hazna's home, where he stabbed her.

Hazna worked in the bar-restaurant of the Barbastro hospital.

26.- MARÍA PILAR BERRIO

María Pilar Berrio Jiménez, a 43-year-old native of Vitoria, mother of 4 children -two minors and two adults- and a neighbor of Murchante (Navarra). She was murdered on July 7 by Pedro María R.J., 41, who rammed her car and stabbed her two children, ages 5 and 9, in front of her.

Her neighbors remember her as a "very nice and sweet" woman.

The alleged attacker fled the scene in the stolen car with which he had rammed her and was later arrested in the Gipuzkoan town of Legazpi.

27.- MARÍA ÁNGELES GUERRERO

María Ángeles Guerrero, 46, mother of an older daughter and son, and a worker at Colegio San Manuel de (Málaga). She was murdered on July 15 by her ex-partner, José, 55, who shot her dead at point-blank range.

The alleged attacker, from whom she had recently separated, was waiting for her early that morning at the door of the school where she worked.

María Ángeles had worked for years at Colegio San Manuel, where during the week she was in charge of cleaning the area occupied by the nuns who manage the school and on weekends she prepared food for them.

The director of the school defined her as a person who was very loved by all and highly trusted by whom the first thing was her two children -from a previous couple- with whom the alleged murderer did not have a good relationship.

According to the Women's Care and Family Unit (UFAN), the victim had already suffered episodes of gender-based violence with a previous partner, the father of her two children.

28.- AMAL

Amal, from Morocco, 38 years old and a resident of Sabadell (Barcelona). She was murdered on July 19 by her 60-year-old partner, who stabbed her and hid her body in a trunk for two days.

An Amal's brother, who lives in Belgium, alerted a cousin who lives in Sabadell that he had not been able to contact her since Monday, July 19. When they could not locate her, they notified the police who, together with the firefighters, entered her home but found nothing strange.

On the night of July 21, after receiving numerous calls from Amal's relatives to find out what had happened, the alleged macho murderer turned himself in at a police station and confessed to the crime.

Agents from the Catalan police then went to the home, where they found the body of the woman, with stab wounds, hidden in a trunk in one of the rooms of the building where the couple lived, who had known each other for few years.

The killer had a history of sexist violence from a previous partner, but Amal had never reported it

29.- LUISA AMELIA

Luisa Amelia, 76 years old and mother of 3 adult children. She was murdered on July 22 in Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid) by her husband, Miguel, 79, who gave her a strong blow to the head when she was fleeing from her home.

The crime took place at night. Luisa herself fled to the street where she was hit by her husband, who hit her on the head with a vase. After assaulting her, he left her lying in the street, where a neighbor found her and called 112.

The assailant, a retired automobile businessman, was tracked down and arrested.

30.- PAMELA

Pamela Salgado M., 25-year-old from Madrid, was murdered on July 30 in Cambrils (Tarragona) by her ex-partner, Pablo Javier G. A., 53-year-old with whom she had lived three years and that he had a restraining order from her for mistreatment.

The family of the victim, a nursery worker who had moved to Cambrils three years ago with her perpetrator, assured that Pamela "lived in great fear and forbade her from speaking with the family." A complaint that they accompanied with photographs in which the marks of the blows produced by her partner can be seen.

On previous occasions, the victim had asked his mother to call the Mossos d'Esquadra for the beatings he had given her.

31.- ANTONELLA

Antonella Orihuela, 30-year-old Argentine, nurse and mother of a 2-year-old girl. She was murdered on July 30 by her ex-husband, Adrián Z., 36, who killed her and burned her in front of the girl. They were in the process of separating.

Adrián murdered Antonella in her house in Sant Vicenç de Castellet (Barcelona) and moved her body to an area of ​​bushes where he burned it. He then committed suicide by suffocating with the car's seat belt, so he will not be able to stand trial for the crime.

The killer killed her, burned her and committed suicide in front of the girl (one year and nine months). Upon seeing the fire, some neighbors alerted the police who, when they arrived, found the body of the woman, the assailant dead and the girl in the car.

The couple met in 2011 in Argentina, in 2016 Adrián got a job as a systems analyst in Terrasa and they moved there, where they got married in 2017.

Antonella Orihuela was a nurse and has several siblings in Argentina, who after the crime moved to Spain to take her niece with them and take care of her after a crowdfunding campaign to raise the necessary funds for the trip.

The court for violence against women in Terrassa had proceedings open as a result of a complaint for verbal violence that Antonella filed last April against Adrián. He had a trial date for October. The same court processed the couple's divorce.

At the time of the murder they were confined because the girl had tested positive for coronavirus.

32.- OXANA

Oxana, of Russian origin, 36 years old and a resident of Rincón de la Victoria (Málaga). She was murdered on August 2 by her partner, J. L., a 53-year-old teacher, who after killing her tried to burn her body and threw it into a landfill.

Oxana, born in the Russian city of Volks, moved to Spain years ago, where she had already acquired nationality. She lived several years in Armilla (Granada) where she studied and graduated in business management and administration.

He had been with his alleged murderer for a short time, a teacher from Nerja, who was arrested. She lived with him for three months in a flat in Rincón de la Victoria.

On August 2, after an argument, J.L. he murdered Oxana in the flat they shared, transported her corpse covered with cardboard to the garage and put it in the trunk of his car, at which point he was seen by some neighbors who notified the police.

Later, he moved to a plot located 40 kilometers away, in the area of ​​the Maro ravine, in Nerja, where he tried to burn the body. A neighbor in the area saw it and called 112.

33.- MARÍA DEL CARMEN

María del Carmen, 60, mother of two daughters and a son and a resident of Seville. She was murdered on August 10 by her husband, Cristóbal, 63, who fired several shots at her and then committed suicide.

One of the couple's daughters, who runs a nearby hair salon, was the one who discovered the bodies. Alarmed that her mother was not responding to her calls and messages, she went to her parents' home.

The day before Cristóbal sent a farewell message to a friend, who interpreted that he was going on vacation.

34.- ZUITA

Zuita Bouchira, originally from Morocco, 38 years old and mother of three young children. Her throat was slit on September 14 in Villajoyosa (Alicante) by her 52-year-old husband.

At 10:30 in the morning that day, a 52-year-old man, married and father of three young children, was notified of a possible suicide from a bridge over the Amadorio River. Hours later, they received a call from the school warning that three children had called the Civil Guard because their mother had not come to pick them up.

The police officers went off all the alarms and hypothesized that the children's father had committed suicide after committing a femicide, a point that they confirmed when they arrived at the home where they found Zuita's body.

35.- MÓNICA

Mónica Marcos Piñeiro, 52 years old and mother of two children. She was stabbed to death on September 15 at her house in A Coruña by her partner, José Ramón G. G., 48 years old. One of his sons found it.

Mónica ran the bakery in the A Coruña neighborhood of O Birloque, where she lived. She was a cheerful and well-known woman. His children, of legal age, were from a previous relationship. It had been about two months since he had started living with his murderer.

Monica's son came home from work to find his mother on the floor in a pool of blood. After murdering her, her attacker fled and was arrested hours later in a Madrid hostel. He had previous complaints from two women for gender violence.

Mónica's son explained to the Police that, a few days before, his mother and the alleged murderer had had a heated argument. The city of A Coruña showed its rejection of this crime with several rallies.

36.- ERIKA

Erika Tavares, 37 years old and mother of 2 children aged 13 and 17. She was murdered on October 12 by her partner, Óscar M., 42, from whom she was separating. He slit her throat at her home in Vitoria, where the minors were.

Erika had worked for three years at the Mercedes Benz factory in Vitoria, as had her murderer, who at around 7:30 in the morning, after finishing his night shift at the factory, returned home, locked up Erika on the kitchen terrace and slit her throat.

After murdering her, the assailant committed suicide, so he cannot be tried for the crime. One of the couple's children was the one who notified the emergency services, who could not do anything to save the life of his mother.

The couple was in the process of separating and the aggressor did not accept this situation. On some occasion he had stated that he was going to kill her, that he was not going to allow the separation.

37.- MAIJA

Maija Annikki Hivarinen, 68 years old, mother of two adult children and a native of Finland. Her husband, Kari Petter J., 70, murdered her and dismembered her on October 26 in Torrevieja (Alicante) although her murder was not confirmed as a sexist crime until January 25, 2022.

On October 28, a homeless person found parts of Maija's body in a container in the urban area of ​​Torrevieja and, hours later, her husband, also a Finnish national, was arrested when he was hanging around the area by bike.

Security cameras in the area recorded a man in a hat throwing things in the container area where several parts of Maija's leather were found who was identified as Maija's husband. After being questioned by the Civil Guard, the murderer confessed to the crime and accompanied the agents to his home where more of the victim's remains were found.

According to the investigation, the couple had lived together at the same rental address in Torrevieja since February 2021, the month in which she had denounced her previous partner for sexist violence.

In that complaint, which coincided with the beginning of the cohabitation, the now detainee acted as a witness, who, in turn, has been in the VioGén database since 2018 for ill-treatment of his then sentimental partner .

38.- MARÍA ISABEL

María Isabel Martínez M., 37 years old and mother of a son and two daughters aged 16, 8 and 7. Her ex-partner stabbed her on November 7, in her house in San Roque (Cádiz).

She was well known in San Roque where she ran two catering establishments with her mother.

The murderer had been denounced by two other previous couples for sexist violence, in 2014 and in 2017, complaints that had already prescribed.

María Isabel had separated from her alleged murderer about two months ago and had denounced two of her ex-partners and parents of her three children for sexist attacks, although both were inactive after having prescribed due to the time elapsed.

She was accosted by her ex-partner as she was returning home from being out all day. At the time, her two youngest daughters, ages 7 and 8, were with her father, and her eldest son, a 16-year-old boy, with his.

After murdering her, he called some relatives to whom he confessed the crime and announced his intention to commit suicide. Relatives raised the alarm and the suspect was arrested.

39.- CRISTINA

Cristina Blanch, 30 years old. She was stabbed on December 3 by her partner, Alberto L. H., 35, at the home they shared in (Valencia).

Cristina's body was found the next morning by her mother and other relatives. A sister of the victim had reported her missing after she had not responded to calls since Friday morning.

Cristina had studied the double degree in Business Administration and Management and Law at the University of Valencia, two master's degrees in senior management in Germany and Valencia, and another in international trade in Madrid.

He had musical training and was fluent in several languages. In addition to her work as a specialist in promotion and business advice, she was part of the board of directors, together with her mother, of the company Ad Infinitum Inversiones S.L, founded by her parents.

In addition, Cristina belonged to a Fallas commission where she is remembered as a very cheerful woman who "always had a smile for everyone."

The alleged murderer, who was arrested, has a Law degree from the University of Valencia, where he was an associate professor in the double degree of Law and Criminology and in the Law degree, and a specialist in Family Law, Labor Law and Criminal law.

He was found wounded by workers at a restaurant next to his home. Apparently, after stabbing Cristina, he fell into the inner courtyard when she tried to escape by going down the drainage pipes. Those who found him thought he was stealing and he was arrested. After declaring (he did not confess to the crime), he was released and was hospitalized. Upon finding Cristina's body, he was arrested again.

40.- LORENA

Lorena Requena Portero, 39 years old and mother of two girls, ages 6 and 4. She was murdered on December 10 in Granada by her ex-partner, Mohamed. F.B., 44, who stabbed her in the parking lot of her home.

Lorena had recently ended a ten-year relationship with her alleged murderer and father of her two daughters.

On Friday the 10th, at around 1:45 p.m., when she was about to take the car to pick up the girls at school, Mohamed intercepted her and stabbed her to death.

Lorena's parents and sister have taken care of the girls.

The alleged killer spent part of the morning in a bar from which he left to murder Lorena. He then returned to the same bar with bloody clothes and hands and confessed to the crime.

41.- MARÍA ÀNGELS

María Àngels Droch Nualart, 64 years old. She was murdered on December 16 by her 63-year-old husband, who fired a shot at her with a hunting rifle in her house in Sant Joan les Fonts (Girona) and then committed suicide.

Before committing suicide, the assailant called his brother to notify the police and come to his house, a single-family home in La Canya. When they arrived they found both lifeless bodies. Apparently, María Ángels had serious kidney problems.

42.- ELIA

Elia Roda Lafuente, 35 years old and mother of a 3-year-old girl. She was murdered on December 18 in her house in Torrevieja (Alicante) by her partner, David, 39, with a history of gender violence with previous partners.

After murdering Elia, David, father of her daughter, confessed to the crime.

43.- EVA AND HER 11-MONTH-OLD BABY

Eva Jaular, 40, and her 11-month-old daughter were stabbed to death on December 18 in Liaño de Villaescusa (Cantabria) for their The girl's partner and father, José R. C., 43, who broke the restraining order he had imposed. Eva had two other children (one younger and one older) from another relationship.

Days before, Eva had already called the police because her killer had broken the restraining order. That day the Civil Guard went to her house and the attacker left.

Eva's sister and her mother tried to contact her without success, they went to her house and when they could not find them, they reported it to the Civil Guard, who located the two bodies hidden in the house's yard.

Eva had been working as a waitress at a well-known restaurant in the area and was now on leave. She had lived in Liaño for more than a decade. Her colleagues remember her as a very hard-working, cheerful and animal-loving woman.

44.- YOLANDA

Yolanda, a 25-year-old girl of Paraguayan origin and mother of a 10-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl. She was shot dead on December 25, the day Christmas, by his partner, KiKo, N.M., 21, at his home in Los Palmerales de Elche (Alicante). He was arrested four days later.

The victim was found dead around 11:00 p.m.

The minors have been left in the care of their maternal grandmother, Yolanda's mother.

The murderer, who fled after the crime, was arrested five days later after barricading himself in the home of an ex-partner with four people inside and firing several times with an AK-47 assault rifle at the police officers Nacional who came to arrest him.

When the attacker arrived at the home of her ex-partner, whom she had never reported but who had also been mistreated by this man, she and their 18-month-old daughter had already been in another secure location for 48 hours, protected by the Police considering that there was an "extreme" risk that they would be attacked

It was the mother of the ex-partner who notified the Police that the suspect had entered the house by force at dawn, where there were three women and a man, whom he took hostage. Finding himself cornered by the extensive security device around the house, he turned himself in.

MINORS

1.- Isabel (11 years old). Her father, Fausto, shot her and her mother to death on March 9 in her house in El Molar (Madrid) and then set her house on fire.

She was a happy girl who studied the last cycle of Primary at the Infanta Leonor school in San Agustín de Guadalix to which she traveled every morning from El Molar.

2.- Mohamed (7 years old). His father, Ali K., strangled him along with his mother, Warda, on May 17 at their home in Sa Pobla (Mallorca).

His friends called him "Moha." Every morning his mother accompanied him to school.

3 and 4.- Olivia (6 years old) and Anna (1 year old), daughters of Beatriz Zimmerman. The father of the minors, Tomas Gimeno, murdered them on April 27 at his farm in Tenerife and then threw their bodies into the sea in bags. Anna's body has yet to be recovered. Neither did his murderer. On June 10, Olivia's body was found a thousand meters deep.

It was a double crime of vicarious violence with which the murderer tried to take revenge on his ex-wife, Beatriz Zimmerman, the mother of the girls, for leaving him and starting a relationship with another man.

According to the judicial order, Gimeno wanted to "presumably kill them in a planned and premeditated way in order to cause inhuman pain to his ex-partner, whom he deliberately sought to leave uncertain about the fate that his parents had suffered." daughters by hiding their bodies, after killing them, at the bottom of the sea, choosing places far from the coast and deep, where she thought they would never be found».

5.- Leo (2 years). His father, Martin Ezequiel Álvarez, murdered him on August 24 at the Hotel Concordia in Barcelona. The murderer asked to spend the afternoon with the minor and took him to the pool of the hotel where years before he had married the boy's mother, who had asked him to separate a short time before.

At one point in the afternoon, the attacker sent a message to his ex-wife in which he told her that at the hotel "she would find what she deserved."

When they arrived they found Leo's body. His father had suffocated him and fled. He committed suicide shortly after. About three weeks later his body was found on land near the El Prat airport.

6.- An 11-month-old baby, murdered along with her mother, Eva, on December 18 in Liaño de Villaescusa (Cantabria). Her father, José R. C, 43, broke the restraining order that she had imposed and stabbed them. The two corpses were hidden in the corral of the house.

7.- April (3 years).- Her father, Julien C., a 47-year-old photographer, murdered her on December 30 in the Lavapiés neighborhood (Madrid) and then committed suicide.

María, the girl's mother, was the one who notified the police after several unsuccessful attempts to locate her ex-partner, from whom she was separating.

The mother, who lives across the street from her daughter's father, noticed that something strange was happening on Thursday night, when she saw light in her ex-partner's house without getting him to answer her calls.

When the agents of the National Police Force entered the house, they found the lifeless bodies of Abril and her father.

The girl's mother and grandmother had to be treated by the Emergency psychologists who had gone to the scene of the crime.

PROGRESS 2021

Throughout 2021, the Ministry of Equality has implemented various measures to try to stop gender violence, a structural problem that requires the involvement of the whole of society and which, in 2021, has claimed the life of a woman every eight days.

Thus, throughout the year, in compliance with the Istanbul Convention, 016 was extended to all victims of sexist violence and included victims of physical, psychological and sexual violence; of female genital mutilation, forced marriage, harassment, forced abortion or forced sterilization, as well as to the relatives of the victims who require information.

016 was reinforced with the WhatsApp number 600000016 for women victims of sexist violence and the "Violet Points" were promoted, offering information on how to act in a case of violence against women.

In addition, the Children's Law finally saw the light of day, which included that parents involved in a criminal proceeding for gender violence cannot have a regime of visits to their minor children and prohibited Parental Alienation Syndrome ( SAP).

On November 25, the International Day against Gender Violence, all parliamentary groups, except Vox, sealed the renewal of the State Pact against Gender Violence to make it permanent and shield its public financing.

And on December 23, the Congress of Deputies endorsed the improvement of the conditions of access to pensions for orphans of sexist violence and extended this aid to minors whose mother has been murdered by their partner or ex-partner, although this is not the father of the children, and those who are adopted.

RESOURCES

016 attends all victims of sexist violence 24 hours a day and in 53 languages, just like the email 016-online@iguadad.gob.es. Attention is also provided by Whatsapp on the phone 600000016.

If a woman finds herself in an emergency situation, she can also call 112, 091 (National Police) or 062 (Civil Guard). If she can't call, she can turn to the @alertcops app, which sends an alert with her location to law enforcement.

Victims of abuse who are deaf, hard of hearing, blind or deaf-blind can call 016 with 900 116 016, SVisual, ALBA, Telesor, ATENPRO and the PorMí app. Call 112 with the 112Accessible app. At 091 and 062 with SVIsual and the AlertCops app.

Minors can call Fundación ANAR at 900 20 20 10.