Caracas, Venezuela
The authorities of Venezuela they arrested the person responsible for two feminicides that shocked the west of the country earlier this week, Attorney General Tarek Saab reported.
“Detained in a river in Turén and ordered by the Public Prosecutor’s Office (the citizen) Nelson Antonio Torrealba Saavedra, betrayed by his wife for being responsible for the atrocious outrage and homicides serial of young women Elyannis Martínez and Eduarlys FalcónSaab said in a message posted on Twitter.
The lifeless bodies of Martinez and Falcon, 17 and 20 years old, respectively, were found last Tuesday in a depopulated area of the municipality of Turén, which is part of the western state of Portuguesa.
Saab then noted on Twitter that “the two were found with signs of physical torture.”
According to local media reports, Eduarlys Falcon she had been missing since Monday morning, when she left home to go to the gym.
The same sources indicated that her body, located near a bridge known as Les Marías, showed signs of sexual abuse.
Elyannis Martinez, meanwhile, disappeared last Sunday after attending an evangelical church in Turin.
Reviews indicate that his body was found in an open field in an area known as La Mission, near his home, with signs of sexual abuse and torture.
The Attorney General of Venezuela said today that the assassin confess to having caused the “brutal death” of the two young women by “strangulation in a noose”, so that his office will charge him with the crime of “feminicides aggravated by sexual violence “.
Tarek Saab estimated that these charges will involve Torrealba’s maximum sentence, which is 30 years in prison.
In Venezuela, at least 256 women lost their lives during the year 2020 in events attributable to gender violence, according to the organization Utopix, which collects this data in view of the government’s information silence in the respect. EFE