He sexist murder of Orianathe 29-year-old Argentine woman stabbed by her partner last Tuesday at her home in Alicante, was discovered by a brother of the victim after receiving a WhatsApp message from his brother-in-law that made him predict the worst. The couple was in the process of separating and the husband, 34, Oriana was stabbed to death and then he sent a message to his brother-in-law to pick up the couple's son from daycare because “your sister and I are dead”. Next it is assumed that he went out to the balcony of the house, got on a stool and He hanged himself with a rope.
Oriana's brother immediately went to the property at 13 Cánovas del Castillo Street, in High Carolinas, and after opening the door as best he could, he discovered her bloody body and that of her brother-in-law hanging on the balcony.
The marriage had in common a son of about two and a half years old and since About six months ago they had broken off the romantic relationship, although they continued to live under the same roof, according to data collected by researchers from the Violent Crime Group of the National Police. Neighbors in the area claim that the young woman had already started a relationship with another young man, but her husband did not leave the home.
seven stab wounds
The autopsy carried out this Wednesday on Oriana's body has confirmed that the victim received seven stab wounds, most in the chest. The investigation indicates that the sexist murderer stabbed him first and then He continued stabbing her when she was already lying on the ground.
He Ministry of Equality This Wednesday, it condemned the gender-based violence murder of young Oriana after confirming that it was a sexist crime, as the National Police had considered from the first moment.
The Government assures that there were no previous complaints for gender violence against the alleged aggressor and affirms that with the confirmation of this case, the number of murdered women this year at the hands of their partners or ex-partners it is elevator of 42 and 1,337 since 2003, the year in which these data began to be collected. In the Valencian Community they have been registered this year three sexist murders and two of them were in the city of Alicante.
In addition to the murdered women, the number of minors orphaned by gender violence against their mother rises to 23 in 2025 when Oriana's two-year-old son is added, and to 492 since 2013.
The Minister of Equality, Ana Redondo García, and the Government delegate against Gender Violence, Carmen Martínez Perzahave expressed their most absolute condemnation and rejection of this sexist murder and have conveyed all their support to family and friends of the victim. Both the minister and the delegate ask for all efforts from institutions, administrations and society as a whole to arrive on time and avoid more deaths.
The subdelegate of the Government in Alicante, Juan Antonio Nieveshas regretted Oriana's crime and has noted that “it moves us and outrages us.” According to Nieves, “with this confirmation there are already too many women murdered so far this year in our country; These are unbearable figures, which remind us that sexist violence continues to be an urgent and devastating reality, a reality that we must combat from all areas.
The Alicante City Council has decreed official mourning for this Thursday after confirming the sexist crime and has condemned the “execrable” act. The mayor of Alicante, Luis Barcalahas made a new call to citizens and institutions “to close ranks and all together reject with the utmost firmness the scourge of intolerable gender violence.”
Both the Alicante City Council and other town councils in the province, the Government Subdelegation in Alicante and the Government Delegation have convened rallies at twelve noon this Thursday to observe minutes of silence in memory of Oriana and to show rejection of the crime.
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