Mexico City, Mexico.- Luis Ángel Rivera Mena, the alleged attacker of the young woman Rosyeilis de Armas Rodriguez He was arrested yesterday, the young woman announced on her Twitter profile.
“We did it, people, we did it; and all thanks to you, for so much support, help and affection. Infinite thanks to everyone for fighting with me. I have no words,” de Armas wrote.
This March 15, the 19-year-old girl took to social media to tell her story and ask for justice. Rosyeilis denounced that on February 24 she was raped by a man on the San Cristóbal highway when she was traveling from Havana to Pinar del Río. She also revealed that she made the complaint the same day and that he was immediately identified. However, the authorities released him with a precautionary measure.
The young woman labeled the Cuban ruler, Miguel Díaz-Canel, in her twitter account after not receiving answers for his case in various military and judicial instances in the province of Havana.
“I go to this medium because I am already tired of not being given answers anywhere. I have gone to the police stations, to the La Lisa municipal prosecutor’s office, to the general prosecutor’s office, to the military prosecutor’s office, I have traveled all over Havana in search of answers and they have not given me any,” he denounced. rosyeilis.
“The only thing they told me was that it was under measure, which I don’t understand. How are they going to tell me that a rapist is free on the streets when I, who was his victim, and perhaps not the only one, do not even go out to the corner for fear of finding him again? ”, Questioned the young woman.
The young woman attributed the main reason for her attacker being free to a possible case of influence peddling, because the defendant’s brother is a political figure in Vueltabajo.
“You put many people in jail every day for anything; for an illegal sale, for drunk driving, for a fight, for thousands of things, and then they come to tell me that they can’t put a rapist in jail because their brother colonel is doing the impossible to clear his name. I do not understand their type of justice and laws, but I have already reached my limit, I do not know what else to do, ”said the young woman in her complaint, addressed to the ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel.
CubaNet confirmed that the attacker’s brother does not really have military ranks. Instead, as other media have already denounced, Leonardo Rivera Mena He was former first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) in the Pinar del Río municipality of San Juan y Martínez.
In October 2022, after Hurricane Ian passed through western Cuba, Leonardo Rivera Mena was provisionally appointed as first secretary of the PCC in San Juan y Martínez, one of the most affected by the meteor. He was substituted in office a month later.
Currently, he continues his political career as a member of the Provincial Bureau of the Party and is in charge of the Agri-food sphere in Pinar del Río.
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