MEXICO CITY – Authorities detained the boyfriend of the Salvadoran woman who died during a police procedure in a tourist town in the Mexican Caribbean, who was accused of abuses against the woman and one of her two daughters, the governor of the state of Quintana announced on Tuesday. Roo.
The arrest of the man, whose identity was not reported, follows the controversy unleashed by the death of the Salvadoran Victoria Esperanza Salazar, 36, who died on Saturday as a result of a neck fracture suffered after being detained by members of the tourist police of the town of Tulum.
The arrest was announced by the Governor of Quintana Roo, Carlos Joaquín González, who indicated in a video on Twitter thatAfter the investigation work, Salazar’s partner was arrested, “who had abused her and some of the daughters.”
The announcement generated an immediate reaction from the Salvadoran President, Nayib Bukele, who indicated on Twitter. “Despite the fact that some authorities came out to deny it, there were more aggressors and victims in this story.” Bukele affirmed that the detainee is of Mexican nationality and that he “sexually abused” one of Salazar’s two daughters.
The death of Salazar, who had lived for several years in Mexico as a refugee, sparked protests in the Mexican capital and in Quintana Roo after images of the moment when the Salvadoran woman remained on the ground, face down, were disseminated on social networks and handcuffed, with a policewoman’s knee around her neck. In another video, the inert body of Salazar is observed being carried by the police and placed in the back of a truck.
The authorities have not reported on the causes that led to the arrest of the Salvadoran woman.
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The forensic report released by the Prosecutor’s Office concluded that the migrant suffered “a fracture in the upper part of the spine caused by the rupture of the first and second vertebrae, which caused the loss of the victim’s life.”
The Quintana Roo attorney general, Oscar Montes de Oca, affirmed that the injuries suffered by Salazar “are compatible and coincide with the subjection maneuvers that were applied to the victim during the process of his arrest” and demonstrate that there was a “disproportionate use ”Of force, for which the process was initiated against the four agents involved, three men and one woman, for the crime of femicide.
The four policemen were presented on Tuesday at an indictment hearing in which it was agreed that they will remain under preventive detention, the Prosecutor’s Office reported. The event also triggered the dismissal of Tulum’s police chief, Nesguer Ignacio Vicencio Méndez.
The death of the Salvadoran woman was condemned by the Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who admitted feeling “ashamed” for what happened in Tulum and assured that there will be no impunity.
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Salazar was a native of Sonsonate, a town west of San Salvador, from which she left 5 years ago due to violence and in order to seek better opportunities for her 15- and 16-year-old daughters, her mother explained to The Associated Press. , Rosibel Emerita Arriaza.
The single mother arrived in Tapachula, on the border with Guatemala, where she made a refugee request that the Mexican authorities granted her. Later she moved to Tulum, where she found work as a cleaning employee in hotels in that area and later had her daughters brought to Mexico.
Salazar’s relatives reported that they were in talks with the Salvadoran authorities to repatriate their daughter’s body, and planned to travel to Mexico to search for her daughters.
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