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The murder of a missing feminist activist moves Peru

2020-02-20T03:26:44.764Z


The couple of the victim's brother-in-law reports the crime three and a half years after the disappearance of the young woman


The feminist activist Solsiret Rodríguez disappeared in August 2016, when she was 23 years old, two babies and studied Sociology in a public university. Although it was one of the many cases in which the police refused to process an immediate complaint, the parents, Rosario Aybar and Carlos Rodríguez, persisted in demanding results of the investigation and even sought evidence outside the Prosecutor's Office. The case moved Peru and on Wednesday one of those responsible confessed the murder to the authorities and said where he hid the remains of the body. The Institute of Legal Medicine, which belongs to the Public Ministry, has confirmed that the remains found coincide with those of Solsiret Rodríguez.

Kevin Villanueva and Andrea Aguirre were arrested last Friday after weeks of follow-up arranged by the Public Ministry, in Lima and in Huaraz, in the northern highlands. Aguirre told the crime police that after an argument in which his partner was also, Solsiret fell from a fourth floor, which he attributed to an accident. Then they dismembered it.

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The student was a spokeswoman for the Ni una menos platform in the Callao region, where she lived, and one week before her disappearance she was one of the tens of thousands of people who participated in Peru in the first march of that movement against sexist violence. Kathe Soto, one of her closest friends - and since Rodríguez's disappearance became a defender of women's rights - told EL PAÍS that she lamented the time spent, more than three and a half years, to achieve a breakthrough in the investigation. “I will continue to look for you daughter, as long as I have life there will not be a day that stops looking for you,” the father had said after 27 months of the young woman's disappearance. In these three and a half years, to prevent the case from being forgotten, friends of the victim and women's rights activists organized seedlings and mobilizations.

"We had the indifference and ineffectiveness of the entire justice system. It has been an articulation of negligence to say that missing women in this country are not important," Soto told this newspaper. “One of the two suspects has confessed, but more people are involved. The negligence committed in this case is not justice. The advances that were made in the geolocation of mobile phones, call reporting, and many investigation processes are not due to an immediate response from the authorities, but because the family has been looking for evidence, ”he added.

According to this activist, in the last eight months a prosecutor managed to clarify what in the previous years three other prosecutors failed to clarify. The murder of the young woman, whose husband, Brian Ramírez, has not yet been located, was preceded by her brother-in-law's abuse. The newspaper La República reported that he sexually harassed the victim. The confession of her partner, who according to her story hid part of the young woman's remains in Brian and Kevin Villanueva's maternal home, shook the human rights organizations close to her.

The groups We are looking for Solsiret, Women's Paro, Missing Women, Not One Less Peru and the feminist NGO Flora Tristán called a meeting this Wednesday in front of the Criminal Division of the National Police to demand justice and request the preventive detention of the suspects, since the preliminary detention expires this Friday. "In this case, the Peruvian State failed us all women," lamented in Radioprograms the former executive secretary of the National Human Rights Coordinator, Rocío Silva Santisteban, feminist lawyer and elected congressman from the left.

Source: elparis

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