This past Tuesday, the Rotary Club of Jávea, organized a talk in the Carrasco salons in which the lawyer Antonia Chinchilla participated, a criminal with great experience in domestic violence problems and especially in the defense of men exercising throughout the national territory. Currently, Chinchilla attends many conferences in several provinces to give visibility to the increasingly numerous victims of the current law on gender violence.
The lawyer, in her speech in Xàbia, clarified, from the beginning, "My rejection and disgust with the man who exerts violence against women. But we must see the other side of the coin and that is that the non-abusive man is criminalized in principle. It is not about entering an aggressive debate but a dialogue conciliatory. It is important to see both sides to analyze what is happening. For the true abuser even harden the sentences. "
Chinchilla, from his experience, said that "The cases of domestic violence, on many occasions, are not well reflected in the statistics. Today we are facing a failure in the battle against gender violence. The approach that is being taken and claiming the solution through the criminal court has made men also victims and are criminalized for being men. "
The lawyer pointed out that justice, in terms of gender violence, "It has become a very dangerous arsenal. The criminal framework provides women with gadgets for the instrumentalization of false complaints for interests that are not criminal but personal. An example of this is trying to get a better economic position, child custody, financial aid and even the legalization of foreigners. This is a use and abuse of the law. There are thousands of false accusations, which shows that we are suffering the consequences of an evil use of the law. "
Antonia also explained that the problem "It is not so much of the law as of the protocols that are applied after complaints that are clearly designed asymmetrically. There are no statistics of abused men nor is the media reported on violence against men. The false complaint from a certain group of women it harms precisely the true victims who really have to be protected. "
Antonia Chinchilla rejected any political affiliation in her professional practice and oriented her informative work to the search of solutions that deal with justice to all those involved in this issue and normalize the treatment of LGBT men and groups that she believes unjustly forgotten by the law.
