A 44 -year -old man has been arrested as, 67, in the house they shared in the municipality of Tenerife of La Laguna, sources from the National Police have informed that Thursday.
The woman’s body was covered with a blanket and the sources have indicated that the man arrested possibly suffers psychiatric disorders. The events occurred in a house in the neighborhood of Barrio Nuevo, on the Canary Island.
It is not the first of these femicides this year. On March 17 for killing his mother, from 84. Civil Guard sources pointed to this newspaper that the aggressor, who confessed the crime to an agent while drinking coffee in a bar, could suffer from mental disorders.
The last report of the Observatory of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) collected sentences of 2021 and 2022 for gender and domestic violence with death result, analyzed a total of 123. Outside of the relationships there were 35, and most were framed within the family. In six of the cases there was a complete exemption due to “mental alteration, alteration or psychic anomaly.”
Of the half dozen crimes, in four the victim is the mother of the aggressor, with elderly, and the facts take place in the family home. In the other two cases the murdered is a sister and a neighbor of the accused. “This is not usual,” recalls Miguel Lorente, forensic doctor and former government of the government against sexist violence. “The vast majority of serious crimes are committed by people without any disorder,” and the probability that a citizen with these diagnoses commits a serious act of violence, such as a murder, is around 3%.
Since femicide data are recorded, 43 women have been killed by a relative. There were 21 of these crimes in 2022, 12 in 2023 and 10 last year.
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The telephone 016 serves the victims of sexist violence, their families and their surroundings 24 hours a day, every day of the year, in 53 different languages. The number is not registered on the telephone bill, but you have to erase the device call. You can also contact via email and by WhatsApp in the number 600 000 016. The minors can go to the telephone of the Anar 900 20 20 10. If it is an emergency situation, the telephones of the National Police (091) and the Civil Guard (062) can be called at 112 OA. And in case of not being able to call, the alertcops application can be used, from which an alert signal to the police with geolocation is sent.
