SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- Luis Miguel Llanta, 31 years old, was murdered this Tuesday in the city of Santa Clara, as confirmed to Cubanet with the Cuban actress and trans activist Kiriam Gutiérrez, a friend of the victim. According to the testimony of Gutierrezthe main suspect is Llanta’s partner.
The information initially shared by the reporter Yosmany Mayeta Labradastates that Luis Miguel Llanta worked as drag queen with the stage name Gia D’ Yenifer, in the restaurant she owns, El Patio de Olga.
A friend of the victim told Mayeta that the young man was finalized with a knife and also received several blows with a pipe. Later, “he hid it under the kitchen counter, but the murderer’s sister told him to turn himself in and he is already in prison,” the source told the reporter.
The murdered young man was missing “clothes and a telephone,” but those close to the victim rule out that it was a crime related to robbery or money and do not rule out that it was a “passionate” one.
For his part, Kiriam Gutiérrez informed the independent newspaper 14yMedio that the young man was a neighbor of the aggressor’s sister, and she and her mother were the ones who found the body.
In the words of the activist to that medium, Tire He was a person very loved by the entire LGBTI community, “by his neighbors and by his workers” and “he helped everyone.” “Many times I gave food to people who needed it and I didn’t charge them. He was one of these people that his friends always came to. With me he was always unconditional. “In the middle of the pandemic, he was always attentive to everything that was happening,” he told 14yMedio.
Reports about crimes on the Island have increased dramatically in recent years, in tandem with the serious socioeconomic crisis that the country is suffering.
Recently, the Holguín Provincial Court sentenced three of the four involved in the murder of Orlando Pérez Ardevel, a 49-year-old custodian of the Mayarí Forest Industrial Economic Unit, to life imprisonment, according to a report broadcast this Tuesday on the Television News (NTV).
Meanwhile, a fourth person involved was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
According to official information, the crime occurred in the area known as Entronque Ocujal, about 25 kilometers from the capital of the Mayarí municipality, when the individuals tried to steal the batteries from several vehicles and the Security agent surprised them.
The Provincial Court of Holguín, considering the seriousness of the crime and the personal circumstances of the accused, decided to impose the most severe sanctions provided for in the Penal Code, according to the official report.
