The square in front of Salobreña Town Hall had an unusual appearance on the 25th of last month as there were 44, empty, folding chairs on it.

These chairs, each one with a violet ribbon, was in homage to the 44 women and children who had lost their lives to sexist violence during 2020 up till then. Three of the chairs were not empty; there was a small teddy bear in each to represent a child killed by their fathers or male partner of their mothers.

The 25th of November was of course was International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which this year fell on a Wednesday.

Inside the Town Hall, at 12.00h, a manifesto was read out in a broadcast from Radio Salobreña, which was then followed by minute’s silence in the corridors and offices.

The Mayor, Maria Eugenia Rufino, said that this date could not be allowed to pass unobserved as it stands against the “most incomprehensible pandemic of the 21st Century.”

Fifteen municipalities in Granada, amongst them Salobreña, have banded together through their Centros Municipales de Información a la Mujer to publish posts each day on social day during for a month against this kind of violence.

(News: Salobrena, Costa Tropical, Granada, Andalucia)