The Quintana Roo Prosecutor’s Office announced the arrest of the person allegedly responsible for the torture and murder of a young man from the LGBT+ community in the municipality of Benito Juárez.
State Prosecutor Óscar Montes de Oca Rosales reported that the alleged assailant, Isidoro G, was arrested in Tabasco, who allegedly fled after the hate crime.
According to the official version, the alleged killer was “the victim’s tenant, a neighbor and they were living together overnight at the victim’s house,” he said.
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Isidoro G also has an arrest warrant for a homicide committed in the state of Guanajuato, the prosecutor said.
The young man living with HIV was tortured and killed on Saturday, June 5, in Cancun, lgbt+ organizations and collectives initially denounced, who described the event as “extreme violence against the community.”
The Quintana Roo Prosecutor’s Office said three days after the events that it had initiated an investigation file. He added that forensic studies indicated that the cause of death was “from a blow to the head produced by a blunt short object.”
The body, which received multiple burns, was located in a house on the streets of region 231 of the municipality of Benito Juarez.
“So far the acts of investigation have been carried out with an anti-discriminatory perspective making it clear that there will be no impunity in this or any other case in which people’s lives are attempted regardless of their sexual orientation,” he said in a statement.
The State Human Rights Commission and the civil association Fusión G Playa Pride Jan Novak condemned the events, which they described as a “hate crime” and urged the authorities to investigate the case with a gender perspective and not to go unpunished.
In a statement, the state ombudsperson, Marco Antonio Túh Euán, said that the Second Visitaduría General based in Cancun will follow up the case before the Attorney General’s Office, in order to review the integration of the investigation folder.
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