President Llorenç Galmés has announced that the insular institution has bought a building in the ASIMA Tower, in Palma, for a value of 435,000 euros from European funds.
The president of the Consell de Mallorca, Llorenç Galmés, has announced that the insular institution has acquired this Thursday a property where the future crisis centre for victims of sexual violence will be located for a value of 435,000 euros from European funds. It is a flat on the thirteenth floor of the ASIMA Tower in the Son Castelló industrial estate in Palma, from where a 24-hour comprehensive care service will be offered to victims of sexual violence in Mallorca.
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The Consell de Mallorca already has a crisis centre for victims of sexual violence
President Galmés stated that “Mallorca already has the future crisis centre for victims of sexual violence, which will be up and running before the end of the year”. He also stressed that “the government of the Consell de Mallorca is committed to the fight for equality and the eradication of violence against women”. In this sense, she said that “despite the obstacles encountered, in just one year of the legislature we have achieved a major milestone, which is the implementation of a new service that will be a benchmark in dealing with male violence”.
The crisis centre will become part of the Consell de Mallorca’s network of attention to male violence. It will offer accompaniment and information by telephone or in-person 24 hours a day, 365 days a year in emergencies. It will be equipped with psychological, juridical and social attention for victims, relatives and people around them. The care needed by the victim can be carried out in the place where the victim chooses, which is why the professionals will be able to travel to attend to them.
The councillor for the Presidency, Antoni Fuster, has also pointed out that the service will not only attend women and girls aged 16 and over when they have been victims of macho aggression, but will also attend women who have suffered an attack in the past and decide to receive psychological or legal care, or who wish to file a complaint.
The aim of the service is to alleviate the effects of the aggression and to put the woman on the road to full recovery. In this sense, Councillor Fuster stated that “the most outstanding features of this service are immediacy and security, confidentiality and privacy, accessibility, monitoring, interdisciplinarity and coordination with other services”.