“The documents issued by this migration authority will allow minors to follow the process of resolving their asylum application,” the National Migration Institute said in a statement.
The National Institute for Migration (INM) in Mexico granted temporary visas on humanitarian grounds on Thursday to the two daughters of Salvadoran Victoria Salazar, who died last weekend at the hands of police in the southern Caribbean city of Tulum. western state of Quintana Roo.
“The documents issued by this migration authority will allow minors to follow the process of resolving their asylum application,” the National Migration Institute said in a statement.
The delivery of visas took place hours after that the mother and brother of the Salvadoran they met with Mexican authorities in Tulum, in a conversation that included by telephone the Mexican Secretary of the Interior, Olga Sánchez Cordero.
Victòria Esperança, 36 years old and resident in Mexico with a humanitarian visa since 2018, was subjected over the weekend by four police officers, for alleged disturbance of public order, who killed her by breaking two vertebrae.
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The murderer had two daughters, the eldest of whom, aged 16, was missing for a few hours between this Tuesday and Wednesday.
Meanwhile, the young daughter is said to be sheltered in a public hostel after being abused by her mother’s romantic partner, who was arrested on Tuesday.
The four police officers who allegedly murdered Victoria, three men and a woman, were videotaped during their performance and have been arrested and charged with feminicide.
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele announced Tuesday that the Quintana Roo Prosecutor’s Office also arrested Victoria’s sentimental partner, a Mexican national, “who sexually abused one of his daughters.”
According to Bukele, the mother left her youngest daughter in a shelter of the National System for the Integral Development of Families (DIF) before she died.
The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has declared that the fact is “full of sorrow, pain and shame”.
Several UN agencies, such as IOM, UNHCR, UN-DH and UN Women have demanded a “prompt and impartial” investigation.