Self-defense sprays have become a essential accessory in the bags of many Ceuta women. They don’t go out without it. “It’s like carrying your house keys or your cell phone,” they say. A means of personal defense that gives them security, especially when going outside when it gets dark.
Fani has two small children. She is afraid to walk alone on the street, because crime in the autonomous city has skyrocketed. When he takes the children to school he always has the pepper spray on hand, especially when he has to take the children to school: “If I have or see myself in any dangerous situation, I am going to use it. If they try to attack me, steal, touch one of my children,” he tells us. “It’s very sad that we have to go with himbut it is necessary,” he says.
Sales skyrocket
In a sports store in Ceuta Pepper spray sales have skyrocketed 600 percent in the last two months. Its owner, José Daniel Mendoza, assures that it has arrived this summer has come to have waiting listsbecause there were no boats for such demand: “Now I can sell at least 50 or 60 a day“, he states.
Women talk about a feeling of “real” insecurity. Isabel never imagined having to buy a self-defense spray to protect herself. She doesn’t leave him for even a second: “Even When I go out to buy bread I carry it with me“. Another woman tells us that she is afraid to go out alone especially when he has to go to work: “I get up early to go to work and at that time there is no one on the street,” he says.
Pepper spray is legal, but it can only be purchased at official approved centers. You must be over 18 years of age, and to purchase it you must show your DNI so that, in the event of an incident, the owner’s name is recorded and you know who to claim.
In some stores in Ceuta there are also for sale audible alarmswhich emit an intense beep when pressed.
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