The platform I Yes I Believe You Cuba (YSTC) confirmed this Thursday the femicide of Leidy Mariam Durruty García on July 16 in San José de las Lajas, Mayabeque. With her death, the number of women killed by sexist violence rises to 53 so far in 2023.
The middle The Watcher of Cubathat communicated Initially the murder, she said that the event occurred when the 32-year-old girl was returning from a piano-bar at dawn, a moment that her ex-husband took advantage of to attack her with a knife. The attacker, according to the media, voluntarily turned himself in to the Police.
The murderer has been identified by the name of Luis Socarrás, also 32 years old and born in Santiago de Cuba. An alleged neighbor of the victim explained that the couple had an unstable relationship with successive reunions and separations between which violence sometimes mediated.
The couple maintained an unstable relationship with successive reunions and separations between which violence sometimes mediated
The young woman’s burial will take place on Wednesday, because they will wait for her mother, who is serving a mission as a nurse in Bie (Angola), to arrive for the funeral, the newspaper declared.
For its part, YSTC points out that an alleged attempted femicide related to the death, this Sunday, of Juan Francisco Sánchez Freire, 77, in Nuevo Vedado, Havana. According to reports from the neighbors, the man, who no longer lived in the apartment and was visiting his family on the ninth floor of 821 Factor Street, poured fuel on himself and set himself on fire. Engulfed in flames, he pounced on his ex-wife. , Luisa, who remains hospitalized with burns on her hands and legs.
I also know confirmed, last Thursday, the death of Rosmery Ponce Peña, 23, murdered on July 10 in the municipality of Güines, Mayabeque. And a second case that corresponds to the femicide of Adela Verdecia, 30, who was murdered in Jovellanos, Matanzas, on June 26. Both women were victims of their ex-partners.
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