The body of a woman identified as Erika “N”, 23 years old, was located in a private home in the municipality of Palenque, Chiapas, after a search warrant was carried out for the purpose of exhumation and search for evidence.
The victim was reported missing since October 31.
Due to her absence, the Alba search protocol was activated; however, five days later, her remains were found half-buried in a clandestine grave.
Sources close to the family reported that the young woman was seven months pregnant and disappeared after an argument with her partner, identified as Luis Jovanni “N”.
State and Municipal Police officers, as well as Forensic Services personnel, went to the scene, cordoned off the area and removed the body, which was transferred to the Forensic Medical Service, where the legal autopsy will be carried out to determine the cause of death and obtain more evidence.
For these events, the Prosecutor’s Office Against Femicide reported that it will take on the investigations to clarify what happened and establish responsibilities, while the Selva District Prosecutor’s Office opened an investigation file in accordance with the protocol for femicide, against whoever is responsible for the death of the young woman.
More than 29 femicides recorded in Chiapas
For her part, Maricruz Velasco Nájera, mother of a victim of femicide and president of the Karla Velasco Foundation, asked society not to be indifferent to the violence that women face, which grows as the years go by and which, with each murder, completely destroys families.
“At the foundation we are upset, angry about this femicide attitude that persists. My daughter is the reason why I fight; This event fills me with helplessness and rage, finding Erika dead in Palenque, at only 23 years old, who had a whole life project that was taken away from her along with her daughter.”
“This is outrageous as a society and, for us, as families of victims of femicide, it is a source of rage, helplessness and anger,” she said.
Meanwhile, the Commission for a Life Free of Violence for Women of the Feminist Collective 50 plus 1 expressed its total repudiation of the brutal femicide of Erika, who is the second victim of femicide in the first week of November.
Her death adds to the list of victims of violence in Chiapas, where 29 femicides have been recorded so far this year.
Source: milenio
