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They arrest a couple for the double femicide in Ciudad Juárez

2022-01-26T01:15:27.621Z


The Chihuahua prosecutor's office captured a man and a woman aged 24 and 25 as possible perpetrators. According to the authorities, the women were invited to a house where they were "viciously murdered". His possible motivation is still unknown.


The authorities in Mexico have arrested on Tuesday two alleged perpetrators of the double femicide of Tania Montes and Nohemí Medina, the couple of women residents of El Paso, Texas, mothers of three children, who were brutally murdered in Ciudad Juárez this weekend.

The Chihuahua prosecutor's office captured David R. and Jaqueline Isela C., 24 and 25 years old, respectively, as

probable perpetrators of the crime of aggravated femicide

.

The judge imposed pre-trial detention on them and set their next hearing for January 28.

According to the authorities, Medina and Montes, whose bodies appeared dismembered and in plastic bags, were contacted and approached by the accused on the afternoon of January 15.


David R., 24, and Jaqueline Isela C., 25, are the possible perpetrators of the crime. Chihuahua Prosecutor's Office

They were then taken inside a home in the town of San Isidro, in Ciudad Juárez, "where

they would have been viciously murdered

," according to the statement from the prosecution.

Later, their remains were dumped on the Juárez-Porvenir highway, near the town of San Agustín, where they were located in the morning.

The authorities assured that they found "enough evidence" in the place to assert that the double crime was committed there, although they did not give more details about it.

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The State Investigation Agency of the Specialized Unit for Homicides of Women for Gender Reasons carried out the arrest and is investigating the possible motivation for the double murder.

The Prosecutor's Office has insisted that

it is not a hate crime due to the couple's sexual orientation.

But the Chihuahuan Committee for Sexual Diversity has asked that it be recognized as such.

[“We are invisible”: discrimination and risks multiply for indigenous LGBTQ+]

According to data from the Letra S organization, Chihuahua is the second state with the most hate crimes in Mexico:

20 people from the LGBTQ+ community

were murdered in 2019. 

And according to data from the Mexican government, these have increased: the country registered 978 femicides in 2020 and 1,004 in 2021.

Source: telemundo

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