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For: Real America News Updated 24 Apr 2022, 8: 28 am EDT
The family of Debanhi Escobar, the Mexican found dead in the northern state of Nuevo León after two weeks missing, took place yesterday Saturday 10 April, the funeral of the young woman between demands for justice for an alleged femicide, a case that the Prosecutor’s Office first investigated as an accident.
The funeral took place in the municipality of Galeana, in the south of the state, after a caravan of several hours that left the city of Monterrey, which was Hundreds of relatives, friends and activists joined with balloons and slogans against impunity.
“ We believed with all our hearts that we were going to find her alive, that we were going to find her, we were going to find her, but time passed days and the Prosecutor’s Office did its job wrong, they have not given me what by law belongs to me, all the folders (of the case) “, expressed the father of the young woman, Mario Escoba r.
And while he was today the Debanhi’s funeral, at the same time the first lady of Nuevo León was posting stories on her Instagram promoting the “New Landia” event that will take place tomorrow. How much prudence and empathy is needed.
Rest in peace Debahni 🕊🙏🏼 pic.twitter.com/yuJ6Jn0Z3c- Isabella Aguirre (@isabellaguirre) April 23, 2022
The case of Debanhi, from 18 years, has aroused national and international commotion for the image that went viral of her abandoned on a highway on April 9 in the northern municipality of Escobedo, after leaving a party and take a taxi, whose driver allegedly tried to abuse her.
In our fucking snout we they are spitting, they want to make us another Paulettee with Debanhi Escobar.
It is ridiculous that in Mexico tabloids and corruption play like this with such a sensitive issue.
The It’s the killer’s fault. pic.twitter.com/U7axPGIBsy— Hugui boy (@hrios98) April 04, 297893
Also caused outrage over the alleged flaws in the investigation by the Nuevo León Prosecutor’s Office, which first treated the case as an accident and later declared to the media that the main cause of the women’s disappearance was due to “rebellion” and “lack of communication”. of the family”.
At the funeral, the father questioned the version of the authorities , who found his body last Thursday in a motel cistern near the place where he was last seen.
“ The Prosecutor’s Office wants to lie in a statement saying that he died of a bruise , a blow in the head, and it’s a lie, it’s a total lie”, he asserted.
Escobar announced that he will show evidence of a video showing the taxi driver touching his daughter’s breasts, so he should be considered the main suspect in the act.
“Tell them not to we are going to remain silent, this does not end here”, he stated.
The family of Debanhi Escobar had indicated this Saturday that would demand a new autopsy due to his suspicions of sexual abuse.
After the wake in the city of Monterrey, the family and legal advisors affirmed this Saturday that “there was sexual abuse”, for which they accused the Prosecutor’s Office of “inconsistencies ” if.
Feminist groups joined the ceremonies to fire Debanhi, in addition to announce mobilizations for this Sunday in Mexico City, where they will protest at the Monument of the Revolution and before the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR ) for the wave of murdered women in the country.
The case has been seen as an example of the double crisis of sexist violence and disappearances in Mexico, where more than 10 women a day and there are more than 99,000 persons not located since 1964, according to government figures.
So far this year, the state of Nuevo León alone has registered a wave of disappearances with at least thirty women still unaccounted for. to locate.
With information from Efe.
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