(ANSA) - MADRID, 11 JUN - Spain is in shock due to various feminicides and other episodes of extreme violence against women and minorities known in recent days.
In all these cases the main suspects are men linked to the victims by affective relationships.
The government speaks openly of an "alert" situation due to gender-based violence.
The reactions of politicians and civil society exponents to the last two known cases arrive in flurry: the finding at sea of the body of a 6-year-old girl, almost certainly one of the two little sisters taken away by her father in Tenerife a month and a half ago and of which she did not they had news then, and the confession of a young man who said he killed his 17-year-old ex-girlfriend and tore her bodies to pieces near Seville. The Ministry of Equal Opportunities seeks in particular to raise awareness in society on "violence by substitution", that is the type of violence in which the aggressor tries to inflict the maximum possible pain on his partner or former partner not by killing him, but by taking his life to his children: according to the hypothesis of the investigators,This is what happened in the case of Tenerife, given that the father of the two girls had taken them into custody by their mother and never brought them back to her, telling her on the phone that he would "never see them again", according to the woman's complaint. (HANDLE).