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New Failure Hits Spain’s Anti-Abuse Bracelet System Prompting Victim Protocol

Officials cite a router-related message overload as the cause.

Overview

  • The Equality Ministry confirmed an incident in the Cometa monitoring platform and activated the victim-protection protocol with state security forces.
  • Roughly 10% of alert messages triggered recurring errors that overloaded the system, affecting an estimated 400–450 users out of several thousand.
  • Emergency safeguards, including the panic button, call handling and Bluetooth proximity alerts, remained operational throughout.
  • Minister Ana Redondo and the government’s gender-violence delegate coordinated with UTE Vodafone-Securitas and visited the Sala Cometa control room to oversee the response.
  • Authorities say service is regaining normal operation and an investigation with the contractor is underway, with further actions possible.