The death of a lesbian woman at the hands of her partner revives the controversy about what is gender violence and what not
EDITORIAL GAYLES.TV.- Ana, 53, and her partner, Pili, 57, had had a romantic relationship for 15 years that, according to their neighbors, was quite turbulent. The arguments and threats were repeated often and no one was surprised by the fatal outcome of the relationship.
And is that in the early hours of yesterday Sunday, Pili died as a result of a deadly gash in the chest that, presumably, his partner would have nailed him. About two thirty in the evening, Ana began to call with insistence to the bells of her neighbors in the block of the Sant Bernat passage number 8 where she lived with Pili. Antonio, a tenant on the first floor, opened when he heard the cries of â € œI killed her, I killed her! â € . He ran upstairs to the couple's apartment and found Pili "lying face down on the dining room floor." Antonio took her in his arms and sat her on the couch because he was still breathing. At that moment Ana returned to enter the home and told her "Easy, it's sleeping", but Antonio noticed a knife that was on the floor stained with blood. Interpellated by her neighbor, Ana said "Is that I have stabbed her", after which Antonio discovered that the poor woman had a deep wound in the center of the chest just at the heart. When the mossos of squadron and the emergency services appeared in the place of the facts, Pili already had passed away.
The victim had filed a complaint with 2012 for mistreatment, but had continued to live with his attacker. According to the neighbors it would be a Announced death"Since the threats of" I'm going to kill you "were heard daily by the neighborhood staircase. Pili, who worked as a cook, was a thin and frail woman, while her aggressor was remarkably corpulent, so it seems unlikely that the fights between them were given in an equal situation. In fact the neighbors had already intervened on some occasion when Ana had threatened Pili with a white weapon and even with an extinguisher.
For all this, the calls of the neighborhood to Mossos, to the administrator of the farm and even to the Síndic de GreugesThey were common, but Pili's calls, complaints or warnings have been of little use to Pili.
All of this has revived the controversy over whether same-sex cases of violence should be considered as "Gender violence" and not as "Domestic violence" which is the consideration they have today. Collectives of gays and lesbians ask that the denomination be changed and "Partner violence" so that the measures and resources allocated in these cases are similar to those applied for gender violence. On the other hand the criminal code itself is more lax when it comes to domestic violence. The situation is more blatant if one considers that the statistics of violence in the treatment between pairs of the same sex seemingly surpasses heterosexuals.
But not everyone shares the same opinion, from some sectors of LGTBI groups, we talk about isolated cases that do not deserve a specific line of work. We would be talking about specific cases that would not have the statistical relevance of cases of violence in couples of different sex where there is an average of 80 annual deaths.
COLLEAGUES-Spanish LGBT Confederation, Along the Spanish Observatory against LGBTfobia (STOPLGBTFOBIA), has issued a press release in which they demand an immediate reaction on the part of the political class to this new death by intragender violence: "How many more do politicians want to get to legislate and protect LGBTI couples?"
It is everyone's responsibility to end this scourge that is already known as "Invisible violence".
Sources: andl periodico.com, pressreader.com
GAYLES.TV
Online TV
