The residents of the Pontevedra town of Oia, with just over 3,000 inhabitants, have shown their shock and pain this Sunday at the macho crime of Ana Vanesa S. P., 44, who was shot dead yesterday by her ex-partner, a civil guard who after fleeing took his own life.

Several hundred people from both Oia and surrounding municipalities have gathered this afternoon at the entrance to the O Muiño campsite, the place where the tragic crime took place and where Ana Vanesa worked as a cleaner, to save a minute of silence and make a firm condemnation of this case of sexist violence.

The neighbors, dismayed, have placed flowers at the entrance of the facilities in memory of Ana Vanesa, a woman who has been defined by all as kind and cheerful.

In the town, the flags have been flying at half mast since yesterday. The acting mayor of Oia, Cristina Correa, has said that “unfortunately, these cases happen much more regularly than anyone would like.”

“We never expect them to happen here, in a quiet town hall,” added Correa, who has shown his “impotence” in the face of crime.

Already this morning, around 10:00 a.m., several people observed another minute of silence at the Oia soccer field, at the start of the 1st Baixo Miño Cycling Tour.

Correa announced yesterday that three days of official mourning would be decreed and that municipal activities scheduled for this day would be suspended.

For her part, the director of the campsite, Beatriz González, has told the media that it is something “very sad and hard to face” and has defined the victim as “a good worker”, “very self-sacrificing” and who always had “a smile” and “sense of humor”.

The crime has also caused commotion in the political arena. This morning, the Government delegate in Galicia, José Ramón Gómez Besteiro, lamented the “failure as a society” that this sexist murder entails.

“It cannot happen again. We cannot remain silent or stop advancing to protect them,” Besteiro said on his Twitter account.

The president of the Xunta, Alfonso Rueda, has also declared on the same social network that he feels “dismayed and speechless” after what happened with Ana Vanessa, as well as the Minister of Equality, María Jesús Lorenzana, who in addition to condemning the crime and showing His support for the family has recalled that women “are not alone” and can go “as soon as they detect the slightest symptom of violence of any kind by their partners” to the information services for women and report them.

They have also shown their rejection on Twitter the leader of the BNG, Ana Pontón, who has expressed her “rage, pain and indignation at a new murder due to sexist violence”; and the general secretary of the PSdeG, Valentín González Formoso, who has pointed out sexist violence as a “scourge” that we must eradicate “once and for all”.

The murder took place outside the O Muiño campsite, located in the parish of Mougás, at the foot of the road that connects the towns of Baiona and A Guarda.

The victim, who was an employee of the campsite, left her work shift at around 4:00 p.m., at which time the murderer, Víctor G.D., a resident of A Guarda and a civil guard by profession, was waiting for her at the exit and shot her to death.

After his escape, the Civil Guard began an extensive search operation by land and air.

The murderer was found on Monte de Valga hours later. There, the Civil Guard agents tried to get him to turn himself in without success, since at around 10:15 p.m. he decided to commit suicide with the same weapon with which he killed his ex-partner.

The murderer had a 300-meter restraining order in force and a ban on communicating with the victim, in addition to several previous complaints of sexist violence.

If confirmed as a case of sexist violence, the number of women murdered by their partners or ex-partners so far this year rises to 21 and 1,025 since 2003, when records began.

016 attends to all victims of sexist violence 24 hours a day and in 52 different languages, as well as the email 016-online@igualdad.gob.es; Attention is also provided through WhatsApp through the number 600000016, and minors can contact the Fundación ANAR telephone number 900 20 20 10.

In an emergency situation, you can call 112 or the phones of the National Police (091) and the Civil Guard (062) and if you cannot call, you can use the ALERTCOPS application, from which a message is sent. alert signal to the Police with geolocation.

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