This Tuesday at noon has been held in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento a silent concentration in repulse to the execrable murder of a young girl at the hands of her exnovio this Monday in the Deputation Cartagena de Canteras.
The minute of silence was attended by the acting mayor, Juan Pedro Torralba, the Regional Assembly President, Rosa Peñalver, Councilor for Quality of Life, Francisco Calderón, Youth Councilor, Ricardo Segado, Councilor for Interior , Francisco Aznar, the Councilor for Finance, Isabel García, the Delegate Councilor for Social Services and Social Mediation, Carmen Martín del Amor, the Councilor for Sustainable Development and Transparency, María José Soler, the Councilor for Tourism, Obdulia Gómez, and the Councilor delegate of Equality, David Martinez, as well as the spokesmen of the different political groups of Consistory Jose López, Francisco Espejo, Manuel Padin and Pilar Marcos.
Likewise, the councilors of the opposition parties and several regional deputies also attended.
Also, many citizens have joined the act to express their rejection.
The acting mayor has expressed on behalf of all the personalities and citizens who have gathered the unanimous denunciation before the barbarism and the condemnation of these facts.
Torralba has expressed his desire "that these events will never happen again" and that this scourge will definitely be attacked so that these types of concentrations will never have to be performed again.
The alderman has expressed his willingness to try to work within the powers of the City Council to "make the people threatened feel more protected" and has taken the opportunity to ask all women who are in a situation of threat or danger do not hesitate in denouncing and calling the telephone number of attention to abuse 016, which should be remembered that it is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and does not leave a trace on the telephone bill.
The president of the Regional Assembly, for her part, has expressed her "anger, pain, sadness and impotence" but she has also asserted that these feelings should not prevent you from looking further and "seeing that the system is failing".
"We can not be satisfied with rejecting these acts, there are no measures, all actors involved in care and prevention have to review all protocols because women really continue to die at the hands of male assassins," said Rosa Peñalver.
In addition to the silent concentration of this Tuesday, the City of Cartagena has decreed two days of official mourning.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena