The Government Delegation in the Canary Islands has confirmed that the murder of Clotilde, an 83-year-old Galician woman allegedly at the hands of her husband on Wednesday afternoon in Los Cristianos, Arona (Tenerife) is a case of gender-based violence, once The investigation of the National Police advanced.
The events occurred around 4:30 p.m. when the National Police agents appeared at a house, following calls from several neighbors to 112. The agents found the body of the woman, with stab wounds, along with to her husband, who was also injured, perhaps after self-harming.
The couple, both residents of Galicia, were in the south of the island spending a holiday season and there are no previous complaints of gender violence.
The Cabildo de Tenerife and the Arona City Council have held rallies this Thursday and a minute of silence in rejection of the events.
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