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Grimalt: "Something will have to change in the laws to prevent these things from continuing to occur"

22 October 2019 - 14: 13

Early this afternoon, a hundred people, including representatives of the City Council and all municipal groups, have made a minute of silence before the town hall as a rejection of the macho murder this morning and in memory of the victim.

In the presence of a large deployment of regional and national press, the City Council has strongly condemned this fact. The mayor of Dénia, Vicent GrimaltHe has been very sorry for the situation, which he has strongly condemned. "Condemn something that obviously we can only condemn, lament and cry, that we continue to see each day and suffer that women continue to kill them without any palliative. We cannot say anything else, as a politician, as a citizen, as a neighbor of Dénia , lament these facts, both from here and from any other city in Spain. Today we have touched Dénia and hopefully we stop once and for all these minutes of silence that day by day we have, unfortunately, to do ", said Grimalt.

The victim "had regained his life" so it was "impossible to foresee"

Faced with the question of the follow-up of the murderer who had previously broken the 300 meter's restraining order, the mayor has assured that the way in which he has acted and with current laws was very difficult to avoid. "I think I did not have an extreme risk. I had a medium risk, I followed the controls that the law marks, that the police mark. But in the way that the criminal has done it is very complicated to avoid. Something will have to change in the laws to prevent these things from happening ", Grimalt said.

Has also appeared Javier Scotto, Councilor for Citizen Protection, who has explained that since February 2019, which is when a conviction for two crimes of gender violence and two domestic violence towards the daughter, which was at the scene of the crime when Everything has happened, it was being monitored by Social Services, the Dona Center and the Artemis group of the Local Police, in addition to having the victim a warning or alarm system. The murderer had a custodial sentence but that did not lead to prison.

"From the very month of February of 2019 there had been no incident of any kind. She had not remitted any fear situation, there had been no contact with the aggressor or any type of incident that could make anticipate or evaluate that there was a risk. She was already evaluated, had a monthly follow-up, the Artemis group also accompanied her in everything she needed, either in municipal-type procedures or also the assistance in some appearances she had to do in the courts. a follow-up, assistance, accompaniment, evaluation had been provided to him, the last one had been issued on October 1 by the City Council, this month he had arranged appointments with the Dona Center, so everything was underway, in operation and it didn't make us anticipate any kind of risk ", Scotto said, to which he added that they are waiting shortly to be able to convene the Gender Violence Monitoring Commission together with the Government Sub-Delegation to evaluate in greater detail the information that we advance today and to be able to review all the protocols

Although, according to the councilman, he already had a conviction prior to February for breaking the restraining order, the victim had returned to live with relative normality and without news of his assailant. "He was in a recovery phase. He was attending adult training classes and had resumed his life. No risk situation had been detected nor had she transmitted it, nor with the help button for the victims"emphasizes Scotto.

1 Comment
  1. Leon says:

    The progressive educational system that disparages respect for people in general and teachers in particular is, has been and will be the cause of this scourge of society
    Recovering lost values ​​seems like a very difficult thing if education, the basic origin of the problem, does not undergo a radical change
    Demonstrations, helplines… .etc only serve to camouflage the problem and not to solve it


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