What is indirect violence?

Since then, the case has held a lot of suspense in Spain, to then cause a sensation.

And is police began to search for the minors and Gimeno, investigating the possibility that this was a kidnapping.

But this Thursday there was a dramatic ending, when A search team has found the body of Olivia Gimeno Zimmermann at a depth of 1000 meters off the coast of Tenerife, in the Canary Islands.

Authorities are still looking for Anna and her father by land and sea. And while investigations continue, several authorities have linked this case to the indirect violence.

What is indirect violence

Indirect violence or “by substitutionof” is a form of violence against women in which the abuser uses sons and daughters as an instrument to harm the mother or ex-spouse.

Clinical psychologist Sonia Vaccaro, who has been studying this type of violence since 2012, is the one who coined the term, which was included in the State Pact against Gender Violence, signed in Spain in 2017.

“I called that kind of violence from others, including the dictionary definition that says she has another person’s time, power and ability,” Vaccaro said. BBC Mundo.

“This is violence against women, gender-based violence, who uses her children as an object to continue to abuse women.”