The Government Delegation against the gender violence has confirmed the sexist nature of the crime of a Finnish woman in Torrevieja (Alicante) on October 26, so the number of women killed by sexist violence amounts to 44 in 2021 and 1,127 since the statistics began to be compiled in 2003.
The 68-year-old woman, whose identity is unknown, was allegedly murdered by her partner at her home. after the crime, the man dismembered the body of the victim and distributed it through different containers in Torrevieja.
The alleged killer, a 70-year-old Finn, confessed to the crime after being approached by the Police. The man had been reported for gender violence by a previous partner and the victim had previously reported another man for abuse.
This was one of three cases from 2021 that remained under investigation: After its confirmation, the case of a 21-year-old girl who died after falling from the balcony of a hotel in Ibiza on June 3 and the crime of an octogenarian in Madrid on September 2 are maintained.
In so far this year, a woman has been murdered by her partner in Tudela (Navarra) and this Tuesday the body of a 50-year-old woman appeared in Granada with stab wounds. The Civil Guard investigates the crime as gender violence, and shuffles that it would have been the couple who would have killed the woman and then committed suicide with a firearm -so he cannot be tried.
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