The relatives of Claudia Montes Muñoz confirmed this Saturday that her lifeless body was found. “They took you from our side, from the side of your little girl who desperately misses you. I only ask God to keep you in his glory,” published Laurasister of the young woman from Matanzas who had been missing since June 11.
Without giving more details about the place where it was located, Laura pointed out on her social networks: “I have no words for my pain, I only swear that that wretch who took your life will pay you handsomely.”
Montes’ cousin, named Jorge, has named Humberto Brioso as the alleged murderer. Accompanied by hashtags #JusticiaParaClaudiaMontes, on June 16, questioned the authorities of the municipality of Martí on her Facebook account for the lack of attention and disposition to locate Claudia.
In that same publication, Jorge made it known that the cell phone that the young woman was carrying on the day of her disappearance had been located. “My desperate aunt explains to me that the cell phone appeared at the police station, it was delivered by an individual with a rapist record who alleges that he only found it and is still free as there is no evidence against him… as of today only expect the worst.”
The young woman’s aunt, Gladys Perez Compte, posted: “My beautiful girl, that’s how we want to remember you, always happy, loving, good daughter, mother, niece, cousin; but a very cold-blooded being violently took your life.” Claudia Montes’s funeral was held this Saturday.
“They took you from our side, from the side of your little girl who desperately misses you. I only ask God to have you in his glory,” published Laura, the young woman’s sister
Regarding Brioso, the last person Montes was seen with, users on social networks denounced that last year Carolina O Gil He left a comment on his social networks in which he describes them as “a sadist” and “mentally depraved”. So far the whereabouts of the alleged attacker are unknown.
The feminist and filmmaker Marilyn Solaya lamented what happened to the young Claudia Montes. In your facebook wall He made it known that “he did not have good news”, since a few minutes before the end of Orange Day, which “seeks to mobilize public opinion and governments to undertake concrete actions in order to promote and encourage the culture of non-violence” , there are now 13 “the murders of women in Cuba so far this year.”
Last Wednesday another femicide was reported on the island, that of Patricia Williams, 30 years old. She was killed by her partner. “The events took place in the aggressor’s house, located in the Los Pinos neighborhood, Boyeros municipality, in Havana,” they reported.
Other young women are unaccounted for, Solaya recalled. “The 16-year-old Cuban teenager, Maydeleisis Rosales, has been missing since May 30, 2021, in Havana and there is still no news of her.”
Like Yeniset Rojas Pérez, from Ranchuelo, Villa Clara, whose His whereabouts have not been known since March 18.. “The young mother disappeared in broad daylight while she was on her way back from work.” While “since May 2, the fate of another young woman, Addys López Rosales, 21, from Havana, has been ignored,” the feminist pointed out.
the observatories Tense Wings and YoSiTeCreo in Cuba have warned of the incidence of femicide violence.
The new Penal Code approved by the National Assembly of People’s Power of Cuba on May 15 contemplates gender-based violence, but does not classify the crime of femicide, for which the activists called attention to sexist murders and the lack of recognition by the Government when the Code was approved “without delimiting the different types of femicides”.
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