Lanzarote joins the minute of silence for the latest victims of gender violence

The event has been convened by the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces in memory of all the women, boys and girls murdered

June 14 2021 (16:08 WEST)
Minute of silence in the Cabildo for the latest victims of gender violence
Minute of silence in the Cabildo for the latest victims of gender violence

The Cabildo of Lanzarote joined this Monday the minute of silence called by the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP) as a sign of solidarity with the latest victims of gender violence and as a demonstration of unity to end this social scourge.

"Unfortunately, the terrible event of the girls in Tenerife has not been the only one in recent hours with the same common denominator, gender violence. In Estepa, Seville, Rocío, a young woman of only 17 years old, was also murdered; and a few days before, five women murdered, one of them pregnant, and a girl also murdered," they recall from the Island Corporation.

"The data is really chilling", he laments, recalling that since 2013, when they began to be counted, 41 boys and girls have been murdered by their parents or by the partners or ex-partners of their fathers or mothers; and since 2003, 1,096 women have lost their lives, murdered by gender violence.

"For all of them, for us, for coexistence, let's fill Spain with silence. Let's meet for them. Let's unite actively, without rest, against gender violence," said the FEMP's call to which the Lanzarote Cabildo has joined.

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