The Police captured the fugitive femicide identified as Óscar Manuel García Flores, 41, who is accused of the murder of his partner. The crime was recorded in the early morning of June 1, 2021, in the house where they lived in the Santa Emilia community of the municipality of San Ramón, Matagalpa.
García was captured at his mother’s house where he was hiding in a basement that he built himself to avoid being seen and thus evade justice. The subject also has a criminal history of robbery with intimidation, robbery with force and injuries, but he was released in 2020 thanks to a presidential pardon.
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The Police indicated in a press release that García arrived at the house drunk and after an argument beat his spouse. In addition, he strangled her to death by mechanical suffocation, then left the house and asked a motorcyclist for a ride to flee the scene. But after being a fugitive for a year and six months, he was finally captured, in the same place where he committed the crime against his ex-partner.
On August 24, 2019, García had been sentenced by the second judge of the Matagalpa Criminal Trial District to 4 years in prison for an aggravated robbery that he committed on March 30 of that year in the same community. On October 22 of that same year, he was also sentenced to 2 years and 8 months for the crime of psychological and physical violence to the detriment of his spouse, who had denounced him for domestic violence in May 2017.
With both sentences, García would be released until January 6, 2026, but thanks to the presidential pardon, he regained his freedom on May 13, 2021 to commit the femicide after a year.
Nicaragua closed 2022 with 67 crimes against women and began 2023 with the murder of a 28-year-old girl in Chichigalpa, where after being strangled, her attackers threw her into a sugarcane field.
In addition, 2022 ended with the murder of Ivette de la Concepción Blanco Mora at the hands of her brother Antonio de Jesús Blanco Mora, alias “El Chino”, 44, who had nine days after being released from prison through the presidential pardon. by Daniel Ortega. According to the information, the crime occurred on the morning of December 31 when both were arguing over the house where they lived, the man pulled out a knife and attacked her until she ended her life.
«We close a year with a lot of pain and mourning for each victim of sexist violence. At the same time that we maintain the hope that this has to change by joining efforts, carrying out actions among all of us », she referred to the Network of Women against Violence (RMCV-Nicaragua).
