A man has been arrested in Sarriguren, in the Navarrese town of Valle Egüés, accused of murdering his wife with a knife and seriously injuring his mother – the victim’s mother-in-law -, sources close to the investigation have reported.
The crime took place this afternoon, around 7:30 p.m., in a house on Reino de Navarra street. The arrest has been carried out by the Local Police of the Egüés Valley, although the investigation is being carried out by the Judicial Police of the Foral Police. The judge in charge of the case has decreed the secrecy of the summary, so at the moment no further information about the event is known.
The Egüés Valley City Council has called a meeting of its Board of Spokespersons this Saturday at 10:00, in which it is expected that an institutional statement will be approved to condemn the murder.
If confirmed, it would be the tenth sexist crime so far in 2026. The last three, not counting this case, and together with a 12-year-old girl, in less than 72 hours.
The crimes of Pilar, Czarina, María Isabel, Carmen, Victoria, María Belén, Ana, María José, the girl Noemi, and another woman murdered in Madrid, whose name is not even known yet, exemplify the worst end of sexist violence. Five of them, and their attackers, were in the VioGén surveillance system. “We find that women are constantly being told that they have to report, but then, in reality, public services are not up to the demands placed on them,” explained Amparo Díaz Ramos, .
Six children have been orphaned by gender violence this year; There are 510 since 2013, when the official statistics began. There have already been 1,352 women murdered since it was created in 2003; and 66 minors murdered by sexist vicarious violence since 2013, when officially.
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Telephone 016 assists victims of sexist violence, their families and those around them 24 hours a day, every day of the year, in 53 different languages. The number is not registered on the telephone bill, but the call must be deleted from the device. You can also contact via emailand by WhatsApp at the number 600 000 016. Minors can contact the ANAR Foundation telephone number 900 20 20 10. If it is an emergency situation, you can call 112 or the National Police (091) and the Civil Guard (062) telephone numbers. And if you cannot call, you can use the ALERTCOPS application, from which an alert signal is sent to the Police with geolocation.
