Court stops Vera Carrizal’s attempt to reclassify attack on saxophonist

“Acid violence is one of the most extreme forms of violence perpetrated against a woman, they do it because you are a woman, it is based on gender and it is necessary that the courts begin to understand that it is feminicidal violence,” she added.

The saxophonist thanked those who have accompanied the search for justice in her case. “Thank you for not letting me go, for following up on the cries for help that I had to make.”

“Women support each other, we are so powerful that they want to see us divided. This is not over, this justice system allows Carrizal to continue protecting himself, ”she added.

On January 24, María Elena Ríos demanded the resignation of the head of the Oaxaca state justice system, Eduardo Pinacho, and Judge Teódulo Pacheco, in addition to opening an investigation against him, for allowing his attacker, Juan Antonio Vera Carrizal, to be at about to get out of jail and enjoy house arrest.

“That an investigation folder be started against Pacheco,” demanded the artist.

In the Chamber of Deputies and backed by opposition legislators, the saxophonist also blamed Juan Antonio Vera, who is said to be the mastermind of the attack against him, for what happens to her, her family and her lawyer.

“He is a femicide because he wanted to kill me,” Ríos said. “I’m scared, but I’m not going to stop, I’m here because I don’t want anyone else to get acid,” he said.

“They knew that I was going to ask for help, they knew that I was going to be desperate, but they forgot something very important: that I am a woman and women in Mexico no longer give up,” she added.

This same week, authorities reported that because there was a risk that he would evade justice and that it was unfeasible to have four security elements for his protection in house arrest, it was decided to keep Juan Antonio, intellectual attacker of the saxophonist María Elena. Ríos, in the San Francisco Tanivet prison, in Tlacolula de Matamoros.