Pepa Font: "It is unacceptable that victims have to go to Benidorm to testify, sharing judicial space with their aggressor"
After the controversy that arose around the 'Only Yes is Yes' law, with which the sentences of 388 rapists and sexual offenders have been modified, fifty of them from the Valencian Community, the popular candidate for mayor, Pepa Font, has met with relevant personalities from the world of the judiciary and the legal profession, as well as with representatives of victims of gender violence, where they have conveyed the need for Dénia, as the regional capital, to have a specialized department in its Palace of Justice deal with cases of gender violence.
Thus, Pepa Font, as a candidate for mayor for the Popular Party of Dénia, has urged the current mayor and candidate of the Dianense Socialist Party, Vicent Grimalt, to join forces to demand that the Department of Justice commit itself, urgently , to constitute this new and necessary space in the regional judicial building. Petition to which The Socialists have responded in a statement indicating the existence of the Gender Violence Court in Dénia since 2008, and suggesting that what it refers to is a Criminal Court.
"It is essential that this problem be treated rigorously and seriously by future rulers"
The mayor has expressed her discomfort at a situation that the victims themselves have reported to her, acknowledging that they have faced a situation of fear and anguish, having to travel to the capital of the Marina Baixa and testify in the judicial offices with her aggressor, sharing a waiting room prior to the appearance. "It is unacceptable that the victims have to go to Benidorm to testify, sharing judicial space with her aggressor," says the candidate.
Font insists that "it is essential that this problem be treated rigorously and seriously by future rulers, joining forces to avoid further pain for the victims," he concluded.