In Mexico authorities investigate the murder of a girl in Sonora

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(CNN Spanish) - Ana Paola was at her home in Nogales, Sonora, on April 2. He complied with the authorities' request to remain in their homes, given the progress of cases of covid-19.

According to the State Attorney General's Office, his body was found in one of the rooms "and with signs of violence on his face, apparently by beatings." He was 13 years old.

So far there is no detainee. His case, they have said, will be investigated as femicide.

The United Nations has condemned the murder of Ana Paola and has called on the authorities to diligently investigate her murder, exhausting "all possible lines of investigation with a gender perspective and avoiding stigmatization of the victim."

This new murder of a minor in Mexico has provoked innumerable signs of rejection and on social networks many have turned to request justice, at a time when the country is on health alert for the coronavirus. "Girls do not touch, they do not rape, they do not kill themselves," wrote some.

Precisely on gender violence and the covid-19, the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, made a call for peace everywhere, without delay. Violence, he said, is not limited to the battlefield. “For many women and girls, the threat is greatest precisely where they should be safest. In their own homes. "

In his morning press conference on Monday, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, when questioned about the murder of Ana Paola, stated that "We are attending to this, it is a permanent, daily, serious concern and we will continue to act, supporting everything… we have to have an eye on the cat and another on the doodle, ”he said, referring to violence and the coronavirus.

According to the National Public Security System of Mexico, 164 alleged feminicides were committed in the first two months of the year. Of these, 24 of the victims were under the age of 17 and 15 of the records do not specify the age.

The UN reports that during 2019, 289 girls and adolescents were murdered for gender reasons. That is, between 5 or 6 victims per week.

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