Managua, Nicaragua.
the murder of a young woman caused outrage this Sunday in Nicaragua, after the National Police confirmed that the suspect had a history of rape, after which it became known that he was released in 2020 thanks to a resolution by President Daniel Ortega.
Katring López was killed and then thrown into a sewer on the morning of the 10th in the city of Jalapa, border with Honduras, Hours after celebrating his 21st birthday, and after chatting in a neighboring house with several acquaintances, including Bryam Jordà Flors Chávez, Confirmed his relatives.
In a press release, the Nicaraguan police reported that “search officers located and captured the subject identified with the initials BJFCh, 21 years old, as the main suspect, who has a history of rape “.
Immediately, settlers of Jalapa who criticized the police for disclosing the identity of the victim but not that of the suspect, shared the name along with a photograph of the man, in which he is seen raising the presidential resolution granting him freedom in February 2020.
“Condemnable and cowardly murder of the young woman Katring Ninell Lopez. The killer was pardoned by the dictatorship. Not one less! Opposition leader Juan Sebastián Chamorro posted on the social network Twitter.
Details of the judicial file of Flowers they indicate that he would have enjoyed freedom even if he had not been benefited by Ortega, Since his two-and-a-half-year prison sentence was served in February 2020.
“A dog that eats an egg, even if it burns its nose, leaves the Aragonese,” said the victim’s mother. Zenayda Martínez, On the Corporation Radio.
sexist violence
According to the non-governmental Catholics for the Right to Decide, by 2020 at least 71 women were victims of gender-based violence. Various sources have reported at least three feminicides so far in 2021, including Lopez’s.
the Government of Nicaragua, Which has reopened the Women’s Commissariats amid signs of rising female insecurity, does not usually disclose reports on the number of women murdered by men.
In 2020 at least 7,924 convicts with firm sentences they benefited from Ortega, With orders similar to those of Flowers, according to official data.
Feminist organizations have urged Ortega to refrain from imprisoning “common criminals“Since some of them have come out to assault or take the lives of the women who reported them.