In Spain there are men who kill their girlfriends
or wives. But victims are not always spanish women.
Sometimes they are inmigrant
women. Inmigrant women come here to work but here they find boyfriends
who ill-treat them and sometimes kill them. But this doesn't happen only
with immigrant women, it also happens with spanish women.
In one year there have been many murders.
The last one was a girl. The police think that her boyfriend killed her,
but there isn't any evidence.
Many murderers who kill
their wives are now in prison but there are some who aren't in prison because
the judge thinks that they aren't guilty . For example last year Serafin
Cerville might have killed his girlfriend Marina. The police found a bite
in the body of her girlfriend which matched Serafin's teeth but, now the
judge thinks Serafin can go back home. He must visit the judge every week.
Men hit their girlfriends
because the girlfriends report to the police that their husbands hit them.
For example, in 1998 a man tried to kill his wife; he took a knife and
he stabbed her, and then he phoned the police. The judge reduced
the sentence to only 3 and a half years in prison.
Women are scared because
they feel threatened. They don't care to report their husbands. A lot of
women are worried about this. Women are founding a lot of associations
to prevent the murders of women. In a few cases women kill their husbands.
After the crime, most men who have murdered their wives don't get a sentence.
Most Men are one year in prison, and later they are in the street; others
are sent to the psychiatrist. The families of the victims hate the murderers
and they want them to stay in prison.
Now there are many things
to help ill-treated women. For example there are organizations which help
them. The organizations convince women to declare against their husbands.
Another example happened
in Spain last Wednesday 19 of may.
It's a very strange case because police
don't know if it's a crime or a suicide. Maica, the victim, was in her
house with her boyfriend Angel. They argued and one of them went out of
the room.
Later Angel heard a shot and he went to
see what happened. He found his girlfriend dead, but he didn't call the
police until an hour later.
Police think that it can be a crime because
the don't know why he didn't call the police. Later the police found gunpowder
in her hands. |
