The parents of the 18-year-old girl arrived in Colombia to ask local authorities to expel him to Peru to “pay for the femicide he confessed to” and not send him to Venezuela, his country of origin.
Colombian News.
A case full of pain, indignation, bestiality, and enormous consternation is the one surrounding the femicide of Katherine Gómez, the 18-year-old Peruvian girl who, according to authorities and the confession of the alleged perpetrator, was burned alive by Sergio Tarache, a Venezuelan citizen. 22 years old.
According to what has been known, Katherine had had a relationship with Tarache for days.
Sergio Tarache
Katherine Gomez
However, he had made the decision not to see him anymore, but he reacted violently.
Tragic March 18
Those close to the young woman revealed that they agreed to meet on Óscar Benavides Avenue, near Plaza Dos de Mayo, in the center of Lima, the Peruvian capital. But the subject’s intentions were the worst.
Tarache was captured by security cameras when he came to buy gasoline at a service station.
Later he reached the place where Katherine was, threw the fuel at her, lit it and ran through several streets.
After the attack, the young Peruvian fell to the ground screaming and asking for help, several people quickly approached and with t-shirts and others managed to help her until an ambulance arrived.
After 6 days he passed away.
Katherine ended up with burns on 60% of her body, she fought for 6 days for her life, but on March 24 she couldn’t take it anymore.
While this was happening, Tarache was still missing and without an arrest warrant.
Hours later, authorities in Peru issued a national and international capture, since it was presumed “he was already out of the country”, as it finally happened.
He was included in the most wanted list:
Preventing order to leave Peru and capture in Colombia
On Thursday, March 30, 12 days after Sergio Tarache Parra’s attack on Katherine, authorities in Peru issued a six-month order preventing her from leaving the country.
Regarding this, Cinthia Machare, mother of the young woman, indicated that:
- “The measure comes when my daughter passes away. She would have hoped that justice would expedite the procedures, messes, paperwork when she was still in the hospital ”.
However, 24 days after the attack and his disappearance, the Venezuelan citizen was captured in Bogotá.
As detailed by Colombian authorities, the subject was required in the middle of a routine search. They found a fake ID.
They also added that he also fell through “his own mouth”, since they heard him say that “he had killed a young Peruvian woman.” The witnesses specified that they looked like the man they saw in posts on social networks and asked the police to check.
Foreign Ministry pronounced on April 15
Press release on detention of Venezuelan citizen with INTERPOL red noticehttps://t.co/K0dw0KLhc7 pic.twitter.com/Z3qBAcDmnc
– Colombia Foreign Ministry (@CancilleriaCol) April 15, 2023
They request their expulsion to Peru, but it expires today
The parents of the young Peruvian arrived in Colombia to ask for help from the Colombian authorities.
They indicated that if he was not deported to Peru on Tuesday, April 18, the day the deadline for such a procedure expires, he would run the risk of being sent to his native Venezuela or staying for more than 6 months in Colombia before finalizing the expulsion process to Peru.
Cinthia Machare, mother of Katherine Gómez, spoke with Caracol Radio and stated the following:
- “I have found myself in need of asking the Colombian government for help”
- I ask the president @petrogustavo to listen to me so that they expel the murderer of my daughter to Peruvian land “
- “On Saturday, March 18, the man makes an appointment with my daughter, they were nothing. They go to a disco and the man won’t let her go”
- “She tells him that she doesn’t want anything with him, but the man bought gasoline and later sprayed it on her body”
- “They didn’t know each other at all. They had known each other for less than a month.
- “This man became obsessed with my daughter, he put on his Facebook that he was married to her”
- “Peruvian justice has given me all its support. It looks like they’re going to give him a life sentence.”
- “I cannot live in peace while he is here in Colombia, I want them to take him to Peru”
Stefany Flores, the young Venezuelan allegedly abused and violated in Trinidad and Tobago
