The National Police arrested a man this Monday morning who killed his ex-partner with a machete in Córdoba, two days after being arrested for assaulting her and having a restraining order imposed on him, according to police sources confirmed to Efe. In fact, the murder took place on the same day that the man and the woman, both 65 years old and included in the VioGèn surveillance system, were summoned to court.

The Civil Guard arrested a 70-year-old man on Monday as the suspected perpetrator of a knife attack on his ex-partner, a nurse at the Benicàssim health center, who died as a result of the attack. The 64-year-old victim was taken by ambulance in critical condition to the General Hospital of Castellón, but nothing could be done to save her life. The incident occurred around 12:30 p.m. at the health center where the woman worked, and she suffered multiple stab wounds. The Civil Guard indicated that neither the victim nor the suspected perpetrator were registered in the comprehensive monitoring system for cases of gender violence (VioGén). The health center where the murder took place remains closed, and a team of mental health professionals from the General Hospital of Castellón has been deployed there to provide support to the staff. 1,349 if counted since official statistics began in 2003. On Sunday, the Civil Guard arrested a man for allegedly seriously injuring his ex-partner, against whom he had a restraining order, as well as the victim's mother and sister. A study on gender-based violence against women over 60, conducted by the Catalan Women's Institute, concludes that assaults against this group are largely invisible, as specialized resources, which focus more on younger victims, neither detect nor address them. The normalization of violence, fear, and social and structural barriers explain the low number of reports. According to the same report, 45% of older women identified having suffered gender-based violence at some point in their lives, and of these, 15% at the hands of ex-partners and another 10% at the hands of their current partner.

It is the lowest figure in recent years, but it is still "unacceptable." A woman was murdered due to domestic violence in Spain every 7.6 days last year, in 2024. This is underlined by theReport on fatalities from gender and domestic violence within a couple or ex-couple which was made public this Monday morning by the Observatory of the General Council of the Judiciary (CGPJ) in Madrid. There are 48 fatalities in total, of which 25 percent lost their lives in crimes that occurred in small municipalities with fewer than 25,000 inhabitants, according to the report.

"Time will tell, she'll pay for it all. I'll screw them up twice." With this message, the accused murderer his ex-partner in the Clot neighborhood of Barcelona in 2022 He warned one of the victim's sisters a few days before the crime.