The Buenos Aires government This Thursday marked a square in Ramos Mejía to make visible the place where in October 2015 a young pregnant woman was murdered by her boyfriend, reported the Undersecretary for Policies against Gender Violence of the Ministry of Women, Gender Policies and Sexual Diversity of the province of Buenos Aires.
Starting this Thursday, in the “El Bomberito” square, in Ramos Mejía, La Matanza district, the face of Julieta Menamade on an openwork iron plate, smiles at passersby and seeks to raise awareness about the fight to eradicate gender violence and that the young woman remains in the memory of her neighbors.
In that green space Julieta and her friends would get together to share afternoons and dreams, those who were truncated on October 11, 2015 by his partner and murderer Marcos Mansilla.
The act of signaling and memory in which family, friends and neighbors participated is part of the “Butterflies” Program, implemented by the Undersecretariat for Policies against Gender Violence of the Ministry of Women, Gender Policies and Sexual Diversity of the province of Buenos Aires, by Flavia Delmas.
“These activities are part of the conviction of have a State present and a society mobilized and committed to confront gender violence and eradicate it definitively because they are in all the spaces in which we travel”, expressed the Undersecretary of Policies against Gender Violence, Flavia Delmas.
? Within the framework of the Program #Butterfliesimplemented by the Undersecretariat for Policies against Gender Violence, a signaling was carried out in commemoration of Julieta Mena, the young victim of femicide in October 2015?? pic.twitter.com/nkMZjnhvqo
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On the other hand, relatives, friends and friends They remembered Juliet as a happy young woman full of dreams and two and a half months pregnant.