On Tuesday, November 29, a woman fell in the corridor of her apartment, in Puente de Vallecas.
She was 67 years old, multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's.
Her husband, a 68-year-old ex-serviceman, put a pillow under her head and left her there on the floor for five days.
She didn't give her the medication she needed, she didn't feed her, she didn't help her or call anyone.
Until Sunday at 11.24 in the morning.
He notified the emergency services that her wife had been lying with her in that corridor since Tuesday and that he had left her there because she had asked him to.
The ER contacted the police "because of the strangeness of the story," say sources close to the case, "nobody calls the 911 to say that someone has been on the ground for five days after a fall."
When the health team and the agents arrived, the woman's condition was "unfortunate".
But when the first investigations began, the case went from an Investigating Court to one of Violence against Women, which has already ordered the entry into provisional detention of the man, "charged with a crime of homicide in the degree of consummation," as they explained. on Wednesday sources from the Government Delegation in Madrid.
He had two complaints and his wife was registered in the Viogén System, the follow-up system for victims of sexist violence.
The first entry into the system was on February 13, 2020, when their eldest daughter, who lives in a town in Seville, filed a complaint from there.
"She informs [the State Security Forces and Corps] of the threats and harassment suffered by her mother by her father, she says that her mother has been living with threats of 'I'm going to kill you' for seven or eight years." , "I'm going to kill you", and "constantly, he threatened her with a knife", explain sources close to the investigation.
The daughter also recounted in that complaint that her mother had been dependent on her father for almost three years and that "on numerous occasions she has relieved herself without receiving support from him."
It is then that the woman goes to live with her in the province of Seville.
From there, just two weeks after the first complaint, that of the daughter, it is the victim who files a second.
She does it on March 2 and the reason is ill-treatment, threats and harassment.
The same sources report that at that time it was considered a case "of low risk, since they lived in different communities," but that, even so, two days later, on March 4, the court "imposed precautionary [measures] of removal and solitary confinement" for six months.
However, on June 19, the woman returned to Madrid, to her apartment in Puente de Vallecas, with her husband, "despite having the protection order in force."
When she returns to her house, both the Seville Civil Guard and the Puente de Vallecas police station are informed about her, who contact her that same day.
The woman tells them that she has returned to live with her husband and that she wants to withdraw the complaint.
In September, the case becomes inactive due to "end of validity."
In relationships involving gender violence, it is not uncommon for the victims to return to their abusers.
Lawyers, jurists, specialists in psychology and other areas related to the care and protection of victims, and studies and research in this regard, have spent decades analyzing the cycle of this violence.
It has some specific characteristics: in these dynamics, the aggressor creates a bond with the victim based on control, submission, dependence and fear, which is difficult to break.
They generate tolerance to physical and psychological aggression, what is called learned helplessness, feelings of guilt and the belief that there is a possibility that he will change and the violence will end.
This woman, a highly dependent woman with multiple sclerosis, returned to her husband, with whom she had been harassing, humiliating and ill-treated with for almost a decade, without anyone perceiving any risk.
The Community of Madrid "is not aware of any intervention by the specialized services," they report from the Government Delegation.
Nothing is yet known about the eldest of her daughters, the one who lives in Seville and with whom she moved for a few months;
and the minor, who lives in Madrid, had no contact with her family.
On Wednesday, the Government Delegation against Gender Violence confirmed the sexist nature of this crime, which brings the number of women murdered by their partners or ex-partners to 40 so far this year and to 1,173 since 2003, when the official record began. .
016 attends to all victims of sexist violence 24 hours a day and in 52 different languages, as does the email
016-online@igualdad.gob.es
.
Attention is also provided through WhatsApp through the number 600000016, and minors can contact the ANAR Foundation telephone number 900 20 20 10. In an emergency situation, you can call 112 or the National Police telephone numbers (091) and of the Civil Guard (062), and if it is impossible to make a call, you can use the ALERTCOPS application, from which an alert signal is sent to the Police with geolocation.
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