Nohemí Medina and Tania Montes, assassinated on January 15 in Ciudad Juárez.RR.
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It has taken a week for the Chihuahua Prosecutor's Office to find the alleged culprits of the double femicide of Tania and Nohemí in Ciudad Juárez.
They would be Jaqueline Isela C., 25, and David R., 24, who have been arrested and brought to justice.
The murder of the women, who were a romantic partner, horrified a population accustomed to violence.
The bodies of the 28-year-old girls appeared dismembered on the Juárez-Porvenir highway, on the outskirts of the border city on Sunday morning.
The Prosecutor's Office has not advanced the possible motive for the crime, but insists that it is not a "hate crime" due to his sexual orientation.
In the version of the authorities, Tania and Nohemí were contacted on Saturday, January 15 by these two young people and "approached." "Later they took them inside a home," located in San Isidro, a town on the side of the Valle de Juárez highway, where "they would have been viciously murdered." The remains of the girls were thrown on the asphalt a section later, in San Agustín. They were discovered on Sunday morning by some neighbors who sounded the alarm at the brutal scene.
The Prosecutor's Office has not wanted to give details about the relationship of the two women with their murderers, or about the evidence found in the house - where the crime was allegedly committed - that has allowed the youth to be charged with aggravated femicide.
The defendants are in preventive detention and the first hearing in the case will be held this Friday.
Tania Montes and Nohemí Medina announced their wedding on Facebook in July of last year, they had been together since 2019.
In the social network there are dozens of photographs of the couple, embraced, with heart filters or accompanied by Nohemí's three children.
The last image of the family is from just a week before her murder.
"I love you so much," Medina wrote.
The couple's crime has shaken the groups of women and the defense of the LGTBI community of Ciudad Juárez.
Chihuahua is the second state with the most murders due to sexual orientation in Mexico, only behind Veracruz.
"The Prosecutor's Office says that it is not a hate crime: is there more possible hatred than the way in which they were murdered?" asked María Elena Ramos of the human rights association Programa Compañeros.
The women were beheaded and quartered in a city that has seen the atrocity of the crimes increase in recent months.
Salvador Salazar, a sociologist and researcher into violence at the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez (UACJ), tells EL PAÍS: "The femicides here have been a systemic problem, but now something very worrying has been recorded in recent cases: an exposure of the bodies, which are highly violated, in the street or on vacant lots, in a very public way.
Two days after the finding of Tania and Nohemí, the Prosecutor's Office found the bodies of two other young women in garbage bags: Tania Judith and Martha Karina, 27 and 21 years old. Both were shot, the first in the face and the youngest – who was still alive when the police arrived and died a few hours later in the hospital – had bullets in her arms and head. The Prosecutor's Office has arrested Erick RH, alias El Gordo, as the alleged perpetrator of the double crime. In the reconstruction of the events, the authorities point out that around three in the morning, after an argument, the accused stopped the car in which they were traveling, forced the women to get out of the vehicle and there, on the sidewalk of a neighborhood on the outskirts of the city, he shot first one and then the other.
In the first 18 days of January, 11 women have been murdered in Ciudad Juárez.
Last year, the figure rose to 171 femicides in the city, one of the most dangerous in the country.
In Mexico, 10 women are murdered every day, the impunity rate exceeds 95% and only 2% of cases end in conviction.
According to data from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi), between 2018 and last year alone, 11,602 women have died as a result of violence.
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