Andalucía, en el foco del Gobierno por la violencia machista

On Monday afternoon, a man called the emergency services in San Pedro de Alcántara after learning from his neighbor that he had killed his partner. Upon arrival at the home in Malaga, emergency services found the woman's body with white weapon injuries. On Tuesday, National Police detained the 58-year-old man, who first confessed to his neighbor and later to the agents.

She was 35 years old, making her the seventh woman killed in Andalucía since June. The Spanish Ministry of Equality has placed focus on Andalucía over the past few weeks for its rising machismo violence.

Since June, seven women have been murdered in Malaga province. The previous incident occurred on July 21, when a 30-year-old woman was stabbed by her partner with a kitchen knife after she had recently been beaten. One day prior, a 61-year-old woman and her 31-year-old daughter were also killed with white weapon attacks, but their bodies were found burned in a fire.

Shortly after, a man, formerly the partner of the daughter, was arrested as a suspect in two murders and violent robbery within gender violence. Earlier, on July 1, the Guardia Civil arrested three individuals after finding the 35-year-old woman's body inside a well in Rincón de la Victoria. One of the suspects confessed to stabbing her with a knife and hiding her body, claiming she had gone missing since March. In June, a 51-year-old woman died from her partner's gunshot, who also took his own life afterward.

Nationwide, in addition to this latest killing, 36 women have been murdered by their current or former partners this year. This brings the total to 1,377 women since official statistics began in 2003. So far in 2023, 536 women have been accounted for as victims of this violence, with 26 minor children orphaned in the same period since records began in 2013.