The platform taut wings (AT), confirmed the femicide, on April 19, of Deyanira Fontanill, 32, at the hands of her partner in Trinidad, Sancti Spíritus. The victim became the 49th woman to be murdered in Cuba in the first half of 2023.
Cuban journalist Alberto Arego, resident in the United States, who public Originally the information in his Facebook account, he assured that he had been contacted by the independent platform Yo Sí Te Creo en Cuba (YSTC) to offer his help in clarifying the facts. The results of the verification process were not published until this Friday.
According to Arego, a source close to the victim stated that the woman. “She no longer wanted to continue with him,” said the person who did not identify himself, and described the attacker as someone controlling who “took even his cell phone,” even though the woman had no profile on social networks.
Fontanill, of whose murder no further details are known, leaves three children orphans, according to the journalist. It is also not known if the attacker has been arrested.
Arego joins feminist groups to demand a Comprehensive Law against Sexist Violence
Arego joins the feminist collectives to demand a Comprehensive Law against Sexist Violence, a project that AT and YSTC have been requesting since its creation, and that could contain the state of insecurity and legal helplessness of the women of the Island.
This Wednesday the death of Sarai Moya Morenomurdered last Monday by her partner in the town of Chambas, Ciego de Ávila, and, on Tuesday, the murder of Yunisleive Fernandez in Jaguey Grande, Matanzas.
For their part, state institutions such as the Federation of Cuban Women or the Communist Party itself prefer to ignore the constant calls for attention on violence against women or to recognize a crisis that already requires urgent measures.
The Island’s Supreme People’s Court reported in the middle of last May that in 2022 18 convictions were imposed for sexist murders, all with penalties of more than 25 years in prison. Without further details, it remains unknown to which cases these sentences correspond.
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