The woman murdered in Humilladero (Málaga) betrayed her ex-husband before dying

The small Malaga municipality of Humilladero woke up this Friday in shock at the death last morning of one of its neighbors, Carmen Cortés, allegedly at the hands of her ex-husband, whom the Civil Guard arrested a few hours after the event was known.

Apparently and according to Efe, the woman was able to betray her alleged attacker before dying. This would not have been the first assault that the victim would have suffered, since it so happened that on July 15 there was another incident between the deceased today and the detainee.

Carmela, as her family and friends affectionately called her, “was afraid” of her ex-husband, from whom she was separated, but with whom she had continued to maintain contact in an “intermittent” relationship, a relative of the victim told EL MUNDO who prefers to preserve his identity, but about fifteen days ago he had asked one of his nephews for help, he explains. Even so, no one expected what has finally happened to happen, he adds.

A temporary farm worker, Carmela, 54 years old, married at the end of July 1984 in the town of Alameda, also in Málaga, the place where her ex-husband -nicknamed El Zorro- originates from and where the agents of the Armed Institute have arrested him.. A neighbor of this town of just over 3,000 inhabitants in the Antequera region, in the northern part of the province of Malaga, she had three children with her ex-husband and alleged aggressor, although one of them died a few years ago. He was born there and has lived there until this Friday when he lost his life in what everything indicates could be a new episode of sexist violence.

In Humilladero, whose residents have observed a minute of silence this Friday at 12 noon in memory of the deceased woman and in rejection of gender violence, its mayor, Miguel Ángel Pérez, has lamented “the strange circumstances” in which Carmen Cortés died, and in a municipal proclamation, published on social networks, Pérez has decreed a day of official mourning in the municipality, as well as that the flags fly at half mast in the City Hall throughout the day.

From the Flor de Albahaca women's association in Humiladerense, its president Juana Ruiz, has not hesitated to show regret and rejection for what happened, both on behalf of this entity and on her own. “When we see it on TV or hear it on the radio, it seems that it does not go with us,” Ruiz has published on his social networks, but “sexist violence kills.”

The Civil Guard has opened an investigation to clarify the circumstances of the death of Carmen Cortés, who was admitted this Thursday at the Regional Hospital of Malaga with a head injury. Although the agents have already arrested the ex-husband of the victim, they are now waiting for the autopsy to shed some light on the details of the death.

The events occurred in the Malaga town of Humilladero around four in the morning from Thursday to Friday. At that time, the 112 Andalusia Emergency Service received a call alerting that a 54-year-old woman was having difficulty breathing, according to Diario Sur and confirmed by Efe with police and health sources.

Members of the health services and a Civil Guard patrol went to the place and after first assistance, the woman was transferred to the Antequera Regional Hospital, where she was admitted with head trauma.. Due to her serious condition, she had to be evacuated by helicopter to the Regional Hospital, where she died hours later, according to health sources.

If confirmed as a sexist murder, with Carmen Cortés it would be the fifth woman to lose her life at the hands of her partner or ex-partner only in the month of July and the 29th of the fatalities recorded this year as a result of sexist violence.