Yolanda Mamani Cayo / La Paz
A 17-year-old teenager is the new victim of violence and the use of firearms. In this case, her partner shot her. The aggressor was sent to jail for six months and is being investigated for attempted femicide. The incident occurred on April 27 in the municipality of El Torno, Santa Cruz.
The Minister of Government, Eduardo del Castillo, reported yesterday that the Police apprehended the aggressor, José Luis QM, 20 years old, who must keep preventive detention for six months while facing a trial for attempted femicide, as ordered a judge.
The event happened on Wednesday, April 27, when José Luis attacked his partner with whom he lived in concubinage. The man shot her after seeing her on a motorcycle with another male person, according to media reports from Santa Cruz.
According to police reports, the teenager escaped from her attacker, but due to the shot, her situation is critical. The victim is treated at a clinic in El Torno.
The aggressor tried to escape and sell a motorcycle, however he was apprehended.
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Del Castillo presented yesterday in Santa Cruz the aggressor in addition to the firearm with which he attacked his partner.
“We need all the Bolivian people to start denouncing each and every one of the acts of violence so that tomorrow we don’t have to present alleged femicides or subjects who try to take women’s lives,” said the Minister of Government.
The previous weekend three femicides were reported, bringing the number of these crimes in the country to 38 so far this year. One of them occurred in the department of La Paz, where the culprit fled, leaving a letter in which he acknowledged her crime and blamed it on the feminist movements.
