- Title: Friends and family bid tearful farewell to Debanhi Escobar
- Date: 24th April 2022
- Summary: (SOUNDBITE) (Spanish) DEBANHI ESCOBAR’S FATHER, MARIO ESCOBAR, SAYING: “The state attorney general Rodolfo Salinas states there is no crime because he says there is no crime. Because the affected person (Debanhi Escobar) is not present, I told him, the affected person is here. Do you want me to take her dead body so that I can press charges? If that is not a crime and
- Embargoed: 8th May 2022 04:35
- Keywords: Debanhi Mexico Nuevo Leon femicide funeral
- Location: GALEANA, NUEVO LEON, MEXICO
- City: GALEANA, NUEVO LEON, MEXICO
- Country: Mexico
- Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Crime,South America / Central America
- Reuters ID: LVA001360424042022RP1
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Relatives and friends attended on Saturday (April 23) the funeral service of Debanhi Escobar, one of the latest victims of Mexico's crisis of violence against women.
More than one hundred family members, friends, and neighbors joined the funeral in Galeana, Nuevo Leon, the hometown of Debanhi's mother where the family often spent weekends and holidays.
Mario Escobar, the father of Debanhi, demanded justice after Nuevo Leon's state attorney general said on Friday (April 22) that the cause of the death was a contusion to the skull.
“The state attorney general Rodolfo Salinas states there is no crime because he says there is no crime,†Escobar said during the funeral.
The nearly two-week search for the 18-year-old law student who disappeared on April 9 near the northern industrial city of Monterrey has sparked new anguish and outrage over gender violence.
The teenager's body was found on Thursday night (April 21) submerged in a cistern inside the grounds of a motel near where she was last seen alive.
Her death came amid a spate of disappearances of women in the state of Nuevo Leon. Since the beginning of this year, at least 26 women and girls have disappeared, and six more - including Debanhi - have been found dead after being reported missing.
In Mexico, an average of 10 women a day are killed, and tens of thousands more are missing.
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