From the Editorial
La Jornada Newspaper
Tuesday, December 24, 2024, p. 4
The Institute for Women in Migration (Imumi) and the Foundation for Justice denounced that Judge Fernando León Chávez modified the preventive detention measure against three of the four police officers accused of subduing and causing the death of Victoria Salazar, a Salvadoran migrant. , in 2021.
Today, justice for #VictoriaSalazar is at risk. The judge will hold a hearing in which he will review the continuity of the detention of two of the four people accused of #femicide in Victoria, in addition to the reclassification of the crime. #FourYearsWithoutJustice
Imumi noted on social networks.
On March 28, 2021, in Tulum, Quintana Roo, police officers subdued excessive force
to Salazar. Videos were released in which a uniformed woman is seen subduing her, placing a knee on her neck while three others watched her. Her death caused outrage in El Salvador, while the prosecutor’s office of the southern entity reported that four municipal police officers, three men and one woman, were arrested and prosecuted for the crime of femicide.
