This Monday, Crims delved into the case of a woman's murder in Parets del Vallès. The episode was titled Betrayal, but it was something more serious. Carles Porta presented it as a mystery: “The Mossos immediately suspect the perpetrator is her husband, but Jennifer's family don't believe it because to them he is like another son. Are the Mossos wrong? Or are the family members wrong?”. It is unimaginable that Crims would treat a case as an error by the Mossos because praising their work is an essential part of the series. Their material and testimonies are indispensable for the program. It was a case of male violence, but as has happened before in Crims, Porta did not verbalize it. It was implicit. In the entire narrative, gender violence was only pronounced once, because the killer himself wrote it in a letter to feign his innocence and the text was read.

At the time of writing this article, and in what we have of the year 2026, fourteen women have been counted as murdered due to gender-based violence in Spain. In one of the cases, the victim's 12-year-old daughter was also murdered. In another, as the aggressor set fire to the building where the victim lived, it also caused the death of two more women, the victim's mother and a neighbor. With these fourteen cases, the number of women murdered in Spain due to gender-based violence rises to 1,357 since 2003, which is the year the count began. For those who like data, in three of these fourteen cases the victim and the murderer were partners; in the other eleven crimes, they were ex-partners or partners who were separating. Also, in only three cases, both the victim and the murderer were foreigners; in the other eleven, both were Spanish nationals. By autonomous communities, three crimes were committed in Andalusia, two in the Valencian Community, two in Aragon, one in Madrid, one in Castile and León, one in Navarre, one in Cantabria, one in Extremadura, one in the Canary Islands, and one in Galicia. Before anyone claims victory, the fact that there are none in our home doesn't mean anything: Catalonia is one of the communities with the most victims, and the Balearic Islands is one of those with the highest percentage of femicides in relation to the population. What I've just written has become routine information in the news bulletins, repeated every time a new murder is added to the list. 1,357 since 2003; 14 confirmed as of March 23rd, a week ago. Often, to avoid the coldness of bare numbers a little, femicides are compared to other famous massacres, such as victims of terrorism. It is a way of lamenting the scarce sensitivity —or denialism or demagoguery— with which many sectors of society, and some political parties (especially the far-right and similar ones), take this tragedy.There is another more direct comparison: what would many of those who deny the seriousness of the issue say if the tables were turned and we were talking about men murdered by women? How would they see it if instead of feminicides —women murdered precisely because they are women— we were talking about masculinicides? It would be about men murdered for being men: for wanting to separate from their wives or girlfriends, for going with another woman, for too often meeting friends to watch football at the bar.If this happened (it has never happened habitually, as the inverse) the social alarm would be so enormous, the wave of whinging and victimhood would be so strident and overacted (especially on the part of the city's most macho men) that it would become unbearable. Let's imagine it for a moment: 1,357 guys murdered since 2003 by their wives. With blows, with knives, with hammers, set on fire, thrown from the balcony, with shotgun shots, run over with the car. Extremely violent deaths, committed with premeditation and cruelty. How would you see it?

Can a choice as simple as a name change our lives? That's the question British writer Florence Knapp poses in her literary debut: The names (Ediciones 62/Salamandra), translated into Catalan by Núria Parés Sellarès. The novel, already translated into 25 languages, tells the story of a mother, a victim of her husband's violence, who goes to the civil registry and hesitates about what to name her second son. From there, it presents three different lives depending on the chosen name.

A woman in Burgos managed to report that she was being sexually assaulted thanks to the international distress signal for victims of gender-based violence (made by bending the thumb of an open hand and then closing it, forming a fist). This gesture prompted another woman to notice the situation and notify the National Police, who ultimately arrested the attacker.

The crime reporter arrives at her newsroom. "Sorry, my hair's still wet! I'm a mess!" she exclaims. And the trainee makeup artist smiles and says, "Now we fix it. How cute are those shoes?" She, already seated in the makeup chair, says, "Yeah? Edu gave them to me, but, well, what can you expect from a waiter's tastes, right?"

The majority of the Congress of Deputies, with the sole exception of the Vox group, gave the final green light on Wednesday to the new state pact against gender violence, which includes 462 measures for the next five years. The criminalization of economic and digital violence against women, the reinforcement of the protection of victims of vicarious violence or the elimination of the mitigating factors of confession or reparation of damage in gender-based violence are some of the most notable initiatives included in the parliamentary agreement.

A man from Rubí has been arrested this week for having shared, with other men, images of sexual assaults on girls between 7 and 12 years old. He did it from his work computer, where he had installed an application specifically to be able to pass on this material. He was a man with a job in a multinational company.

Violence against women is a true global pandemic, according to data presented this afternoon by the World Health Organization (WHO), in the most ambitious global study that has been carried out so far. At least one third of women on the planet (about 736 million) suffer or have suffered physical or sexual violence at the hands of their partner or others. The data is even more frightening when you consider that the violence starts very early: one in four women between the ages of 15 and 24 who have had sex will have experienced violent behaviour from a partner by the time they are 25, the report concludes.