“The debate over whether he first sexist crime The pharmacist who works next door to Sandra’s home, who was stabbed to death by her emotional partner last Tuesday morning, the suffering of a trans woman in Catalonia covers up something that should really matter to us: What went wrong? He told me more than once: ‘It kills me every day’The pharmacist persists, paraphrasing a statement that Manuel, who was a servant on Sandra’s farm, also claimed to have heard formulated by the victim.
Sandra felt like a woman, but she was still a man in her identity. She had not been subjected to any interference in her transition either. Outwardly, she had decided to live out her pulsating sex by growing out her hair, dressing more and more feminine, and asking to be called Sandra. She was living with Jose, a man about ten years younger than her and much weaker physically. They were a sentimental couple living in an apartment on the tenth floor of the Barcelona City Council’s official conservation block at 28 Selva de Mar avenue in the Sant Marti district. Quarrels and arguments between them were very frequent.
Neighbors said they both suffered from “mental health issues,” a diagnosis that official sources did not confirm. “But he was intelligent and sane. However, he suffered epidemics that periodically kept him locked up in psychiatric centers,” the pharmacy insists.
history of violence
Sandra had reported Jose’s mistreatment to Mossos d’Esquadra. However, the Catalan police, emphasizing that they look at Sandra’s case as a trial, macho crime and Sandra, as a woman, was unable to clarify whether the victim’s treatment during her lifetime was the same as that offered to other victims who were threatened by her emotional partners. Sandra had no bodyguard. And neither the notifications he formalized, nor the outbreaks Jose had been exposed to, intermittently activated alarms that prevented what he had guaranteed would be, that “any day” would kill him.
minutes of silence
Generalitat Government and the Barcelona City Council, with Feminism ‘council member’ Tania Vergeand the mayor Ada Colau, in front of him, condemned this macho murder with a minute of silence this Thursday. LGTBI entities and groups attended the commemoration, although no one knew Sandra. According to neighbors, Sandra was from Eixample and had settled in the Sant Martí block a year ago. She didn’t like the area, she missed the city centre.
Jose stabbed Sandra during another argument Tuesday morning. He then called Mossos. Neither agents nor toilets Medical Emergency System (SEM) They couldn’t do anything to save his life. It was late.
to ordinary court
Although they have made public that Mossos has identified her as a woman and is investigating the murder as a sexist crime, Sandra has no official record, the first murder of a trans woman in Catalonia. His body continues to be associated with his birth name and surname, beyond phrases like that of Sant Jaume this Thursday. For the time being, justice has not sent the case to a gender-based violence court, as it does when every man kills a woman. His murderer, Jose, will come in. detention.
Sandra decided to live as she normally feels, without explanation or surgery. But bureaucracy is having a hard time. And to neighbors, the discussion seems to have centered on how his death should be investigated rather than figuring out what went wrong so he wouldn’t continue to live.