A woman identified this Tuesday as Yunisleive Fernández, allegedly murdered by her ex-partner in Matanzas, is the 47th victim of sexist violence so far this year in Cuba, a figure that already far exceeds the 36 femicides registered in all of 2022.
According to the statements that his relatives offered to CubaNetOn June 19, Fernández denounced at the Torrientes Police station, in the Jagüey Grande municipality of Matanzas, that her attacker had brutally beaten her. According to this version, the man kicked him in the eye, causing him to lose his vision.
Upon learning that Fernández had gone to the authorities, his ex-partner, whose name the media does not mention but suggests that he lived under the same roof as the victim, threatened to kill her. Four days later, on June 23, Fernández was stabbed to death in front of her four-year-old son and her mother.
The man, who also tried to hurt the boy, ended up escaping when the victim’s mother pushed him and he fell to the ground.
The man, who also tried to hurt the child, ended up escaping when the victim’s mother pushed him and he fell to the ground, according to Jonathan Adrián, the young woman’s cousin.
Fernández’s relatives regret that after the complaint filed by her, the Police limited themselves to taking the statement and did not arrest the attacker. “He had a murder in Havana and was a fugitive from justice,” revealed Adrián, who claimed to have learned this information from the Ministry of the Interior itself.
The victim, a resident of the municipality of La Lisa, in Havana, had moved to Matanzas to live with her partner after meeting him online, she told CubaNet an anonymous source close to the young woman.
The fuel crisis that the Island is going through and the impossibility of getting tickets from one province to another has prevented his family from bringing Fernández’s body to the capital, they lamented.
Nor was it easy to have a coffin to offer him a dignified burial ceremony. “If my mother (aunt of the deceased) does not fight tooth and nail, they do not give it to her,” said the young man.
Nor was it easy to have a coffin to offer him a dignified burial ceremony
On June 26, the Cuban Women’s Network denounced the death of 25-year-old Alianni Rodríguez, hacked to death in Colón, another Matanzas municipality, by an individual identified as Adrián Barrios Rodríguez, who fled. The young woman orphaned a three-year-old girl.
The week before, the platforms Alas Tensas and Yo Sí Te Creo in Cuba confirmed the murder of Nelbys Leyva in Guanabacoa, Havana, which occurred on June 16 at the hands of his ex-partner. In what was one of the most tragic weeks on record, four other femicides were recorded.
The Island exceeds, in just six months, the total number of femicides verified in all of 2022 (36), according to the records of the activists and collated by 14ymedioin the absence of public official statistics.
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