“We need to assess where coordination errors occur and where we can improve that coordination, because that is indeed where we found a problem,” said Ana Redondo.
The Minister of Equality, Ana Redondoacknowledged this Tuesday a “coordination problem” in the fight against sexist violence, following the latest killings last weekend.
“We must assess where coordination failures occur and where we can improve that coordination, because we have indeed discovered a problem there too,” Redondo assured after chairing the Crisis Committee, which was also attended by the Minister of the Interior. Fernando Grande-Marlaska.
In that sense, Redondo and Marlaska have defended the defense VioGén SystemThe Equality chief has said that “it is working” but that it is a “cultural problem that is very difficult to eradicate”. In any case, she has acknowledged that it needs to be strengthened “to be more agile in the response and more effective in protecting women” and that “undoubtedly” “greater coordination” is needed.
Along the same lines, Redondo has said that equality aims to strengthen equality coordination with Health and Social Rights to detect cases of gender violence “in advance”, as announced on Tuesday by Equality Minister Ana Redondo, after chairing the Crisis Committee.
Referring to vicarious violencethe minister indicated that this is a problem that has been discovered ‘in a very virulent way’. In this sense, he explained that the participants in the meeting requested that measures to protect minors could not be exclusively civil, but also criminal.
In any case, Redondo added that this is an issue that will be addressed in the Commission to renew the State Pact against Gender Violence.
Marlaska, for his part, expressed his “absolute confidence” in the VioGén system, adding that it “pioneer” and “unique in the world”. “When tragedies occur, as we said, like last Saturday, we immediately analyse what happened, because there is no other way, and we look for improvements that will help us be more effective and prevent these types of events from happening again.
Marlaska asked the victims of sexist violence and the people around them that they disapprove and that they trust in the state security forces and the corps because “it is the way to save lives.”
“The complaint is without a doubt the key that allows us to open the umbrella that protects and protects the Spanish State from all victims of sexist violence,” he assured, adding that the VioGén model “is not infallible, but it saves many lives”.
This Crisis Committee was set up following the sexist murders that took place in April, in which seven victims of gender violence fell (four women and three minors). These meetings are convened when more than five murders occur within a month as a result of gender violence and vicarious violence.
Exactly, this Monday the Ministry of Equality raised the matter 19 women and 9 minors murdered by sexist violence after confirmation of Las’s cases Pedroñeras (Cuenca), Fuengirola (Malaga) and Zafarraya (Granada)It concerns three women and two minors.
In total, according to the department headed by Ana Redondo, the number of women killed by their partners or ex-partners since 2003, when the data began to be collected, stands at 1,263, and the number of children killed since 2013 stands at 62.
Source: EITB
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