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The Spanish Government approves a bill against vicarious violence

It criminalizes this type of male violence as an offence against the moral integrity of women, punishable by up to three years' imprisonment.

FOTODELDÍA MADRID, 30/09/2025.-  La ministra de Igualdad, Ana Redondo, durante la rueda de prensa posterior a la reunión del Consejo de Ministros, este martes en Moncloa. EFE/Rodrigo Jiménez
Minister for Equality, Ana Redondo. Photo: EFE

On Tuesday, the Spanish Government approved in the Council of Ministers the draft law against vicarious violence, which provides for male violence as a crime under the Criminal Code and recognizes as victims not only minor children, but also relatives and partners of women.

The text, the first comprehensive lawon the subject, defines vicarious violence as "violence which, in order to cause pain and suffering to women, may be exercised on children or descendants", i.e. against minors under the care and guardianship of the victim, ascendants, siblings and partners or ex-partners.

It introduces into the Penal Code a new article criminalizing vicarious violence against the moral integrity of women, punishable by imprisonment from six months to three years, as well as additional penalties to prohibit vicarious offenders from publicly disclosing details of their crimes, thereby preventing the repetition of what happened with the murderer José Bretón and the book El Odio .

Equality Minister Ana Redondo has stressed that this law puts Spain back"at the forefront of equality policies" when male violence remains one of the major problems facing society.

Redondo has stated that the future rule has three objectives: to protect victims and to make Spanish society aware of the need to put an end to "these radical, brutal and unthinkable violence"; to define and criminalize vicarious violence in the legal system; and to develop a renewed State Pact against gender-based violence, which includes about 40 measures of this type of gender-based violence.

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