Two women murdered by their ex-partners in four hours. This is the tragic toll of this Thursday, after a Civil Guard agent murdered his ex-partner, also a police officer, at a barracks in Asturias, and another man fatally stabbed his ex-partner in a shopping center in Murcia. The first aggressor was shot dead by his Civil Guard colleagues, while the man accused of the Murcia crime was arrested early this morning after attempting to flee.

Male violence does not stop. In just 24 hours, two male murders have occurred, raising alarms in Spain. The latest was in Murcia, where a man allegedly stabbed his ex-partner to death in a shopping center. The attacker fled, but this morning the Civil Guard arrested him in the same region. According to the Superior Court of Justice of the Region of Murcia, he is accused of the crimes of "homicide and breach of sentence," as he had been convicted of mistreatment and was subject to a restraining order prohibiting him from approaching within 500 meters of the woman.

A Civil Guard agent shot and killed his ex-partner, also an agent, at the barracks of the armed institute in Llanes (Asturias). The man, who had also been seriously injured when the victim's colleagues tried to prevent the assault by making him retreat, also died. The events took place shortly before 1:30 p.m., when the alleged perpetrator, assigned to the Zamora command, entered the Llanes facilities through a secondary door, as he had worked there before and was familiar with the premises. Once inside, he shot his ex-partner, with whom he had three children – an 18-year-old and 14-year-old twins.

Mossos d'Esquadra have arrested the alleged perpetrator of two sexual assaults and robberies with violence against two homeless women in Blanes and Barcelona on July 2 and 20. The arrest took place this Saturday. The detainee, with a prior record, was brought before the on-duty investigating court of Blanes on the same day.

She had been mistreating her for more than ten years and she had ended up in a house for women victims of gender violence. The assaults were continuous, but she never reported it for fear that he would kill her or harm her two children, only eight and four years old. This dramatic situation is what the woman who died last Tuesday night in the Sant Martí district of Barcelona was experiencing, stabbed by her partner, who this Friday the court for violence against women has sent to preventive detention. In her ruling, the judge highlights the testimony of the victim's friends, who describe a spiral of constant and lasting violence.

The scourge of sexist violence strikes the State again and the police are investigating two possible sexist crimes that allegedly took place in the last few hours in Castilla-La Mancha and Andalusia. Initially, a third case in the Valencian Community had been added, which has been dismissed after the autopsy attributed the death to natural causes.

The Mossos d’Esquadra received a report on Sunday for an alleged sexual assault between two minors aged 13. The events took place over the weekend in Tàrrega.

New step forward in the case of the alleged sexual assault by the former Deputy Operational Director (DAO) of the National Police José Ángel González. The judge in Madrid investigating the case, which stems from the complaint by a police officer, sees clear indications of the crime in the proceedings carried out so far and, as it is a serious offense, has decided to transform the preliminary proceedings into a summary, the phase prior to sending the case to trial. According to a ruling to which ARA has had access, the investigated facts "bear the hallmarks of an alleged sexual assault offense", which – he adds – should be tried by the Provincial Court of Madrid.

There is a before and after the early morning of July 7, 2016. The group rape of an 18-year-old girl by five men in Pamplona, during the Sanfermines, overturned the social perception of sexual violence and transformed the legal system and the way of explaining and understanding machista violence. The aggressors themselves, a group of friends who called themselves "La Manada" (The Pack), recorded the rape images and shared them in a WhatsApp group as if it were the trophy of that night, in a gesture of toxic male complicity.

A 51-year-old woman and her 20-year-old daughter were murdered this Thursday in the Canyada del Fenollar area of Alicante, presumably at the hands of the father of the family, aged 53. The man has been arrested by the Civil Guard for these events, which are being investigated as a possible case of gender-based violence.

Karla took fifteen years to make the move. Half her life. It was a long time of silence. Also of shame. Even of fear. Hours of psychologists to gradually put the pieces back in place. Until she was ready to report the man who sexually assaulted and tortured her when she was just a fourteen-year-old girl.

The relationship began with an arranged marriage in Bangladesh. The couple lived together for a few years, as agreed by both families, and they had a daughter who is now eleven years old. In 2017, the man moved to Barcelona, looked for a way to make a living, and opened a 24-hour supermarket in the Zona Franca. Five years later, the woman and the girl, who was already seven years old, also traveled to the Catalan capital to meet him. That's where the ordeal that both of them have had to endure began, terrified by the man's assaults and having to sleep inside the cold room of the supermarket's back shop while he stayed in an apartment.

Sevilla footballer Rafa Mir has been sentenced by the Provincial Court of Valencia to 8 and a half years in prison for sexual assault and another offense of injury, as reported this Monday by the Superior Court of Justice of the Valencian Community. The striker was arrested and released on bail after the complaint by a 21-year-old girl at the time of the events, who stated that the player and a friend of his, also footballer Pablo Jara, had sexually assaulted two women at the former's home in the town of Bétera on the night of August 31, 2024. As a consequence of the attack, both victims required hospital assistance. The events occurred when the player was on loan to Valencia. This season, the attacker has played on loan at Elche, where he has played 27 matches and scored eight goals, and has been a key player for the team's survival.

The terrible feminicide in Figueres forces us to ask an uncomfortable but essential question: what happens to a man that leads him to murder his partner in broad daylight? What breaks for someone to decide that rather than lose control over a woman, they prefer to annihilate her?

Three police officers from Canada have been arrested for sexually assaulting and beating a prostitute in Barcelona, as reported by El Periódico and confirmed by ACN from police sources. The events occurred last Wednesday in the Ciutat Vella district. The three Canadian police officers, who were on vacation, were in a taxi with the woman when one of them touched her inappropriately. The woman got angry, resisted, and ended up receiving a punch to the face from a second police officer. As a result of the assault, she had to receive medical attention for a deep cut on her eyebrow and filed a complaint with the Mossos d'Esquadra for sexual assault and injuries.

I went to give a talk at a high school and asked the students if they had witnessed any act or instance of discrimination based on sex. I directly addressed the boys because years ago I realized an obvious truth that had not occurred to me: that many of the men with whom we have lived throughout our lives, even though we have had them by our side in schools, homes, jobs, and recreational spaces, have not the faintest idea of what we have suffered for the simple fact of being women. I am not talking, of course, about those who have discriminated against us, whether out of custom and culture, ideological conviction, or simply because they did not want to give up the privileges that being part of the dominant sex gives them. I am referring to the men who have never seen us as inferior or as humanly different. Children, boys, and men who are genuinely egalitarian because they do not conceive of relationships in terms of submission until they are taught to be the masters of their female counterparts. Although feminism must primarily deal with the dire consequences that patriarchy has on women, we would be doing ourselves a disservice if we did not also keep an eye on how they live this social organization that is given to them. Some fit into it and accommodate themselves without any problem, but others do not.

The Mossos d'Esquadra arrested a man this Saturday as the alleged perpetrator of the violent death of a woman in the town of Esplugues de Llobregat, in Baix Llobregat. The Catalan police force received the alert around 11 a.m. this morning, through a call to 112 informing that a man had injured a woman and fled the scene. As the ARA has been able to ascertain, the murder allegedly occurred in the middle of Joan Miró street with a bladed weapon. In fact, according to residents of the area, the man had previously brandished a large knife and showed signs of nervousness. When the Mossos d'Esquadra units and the emergency medical services (SEM) arrived, they could no longer do anything to save the woman's life, who had received several stab wounds.

They feel confused, alone, and insecure, wondering if, despite the calls to report the abuser, they haven't made a mistake, given that in courts, at the police station, or at the health center, they encounter little empathy from the professionals who are supposed to protect them. "You question if you did the right thing, if you should have stayed quiet," explains a woman through the anonymous channel opened by theObservatory of Institutional Machista Violence (OVIM) of the State to visualize the mistreatment that public services still inflict on these women. Last year, it received 139 reports, twenty more than in 2024 – the first year of operation – but the promoters admit that there is a high rate of underreporting.

A 43-year-old woman has been murdered this Thursday in Seseña, province of Toledo, by her ex-husband, who has committed suicide. The man, fifty years old, had a history of gender-based violence, and according to the Efe agency, both he and the victim were in the VioGén monitoring system but without any judicial measures. The woman, of Venezuelan nationality, was named Melissa and is the 17th fatal victim this year and the 1,360th since official records began in the State in 2003.

The Good Daughter, by director Júlia de Paz (Sant Cugat del Vallès, 1995), can now be seen in cinemas. It shows the consequences of vicarious violence and sexist violence on children, who are often unrecognized victims. And it does so through Carmela, a 12-year-old girl, who must periodically go to a meeting point to see her father, whom she idolizes. Little by little, however, the girl – and with her, the viewer – will discover who he really is and his way of exercising psychological violence.