Police have arrested a prime suspect in the murder of four women and photojournalist Ruben Espinosa on Friday in an apartment in Mexico City. The motives of the crime are not yet known. Theft, femicide and murder political conjecture, since Espinosa, a reporter for 31 years, had fled two months ago by threats from the state of Veracruz, deadly for the press, to Mexico City.
The first arrest is 42 and was imprisoned from 1996 to 2005 for rape. The prosecution of Mexico DF has not confirmed but versions circulating around a marked by the systematic flow of leaks instruction states that two of the victims were raped: a Mexican 18 call Yesenia Quiroz and a Colombian of 31, Mile Virginia Martin, roommates of a third victim, Nadia Vera, 32, friend and companion Espinosa activism in Xalapa (Veracruz).
The fifth was killed the housekeeper, Alejandra Negrete, 40. The reporter and the three youths had stale at home and had gone to bed late. The employee arrived at nine. Six hours later they were all killed with a shot to the head.
The detainee has admitted he stole the apartment but refused to kill. Police identified him by his fingerprints and stopped yesterday in Mexico City. CCTV images released by the Prosecutor blurry figures of the three alleged murderers out of the building at three in the afternoon of Friday are. One is to walk. The others get into a red car-a mustang that belong to the young Colombia- and tear sparingly; one of them is arrested. He is carrying a suitcase in which it follows that it would carry stolen.
Theft, rape and executions had to happen in less than an hour between Espinosa sent a last message to a friend, 14.13, "I write coming home", and the output of the murderers around three. Of the inhabitants of the house it is not known that they had too many resources. They paid between three and a quarter (who discovered the crime Friday night when returning from work) 600 dollars a month for an apartment on a middle-class neighborhood.
The case has shocked by his cruelty and has taken on particular significance because the reporter had recently escaped a bloody state to the press as Veracruz, where since 2011, the controversial governor Javier Duarte, 15 journalists have been killed. The murders of informants, a hundred since 2000, more than in the entire Vietnam War, is one of the scourges of human rights violations trailing Mexico. Organizations like the UN and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and numerous NGOs and civil society voices demand since the start of the research that delve into the line of a possible political assassination.
The authorities in Colombia and sent the results to the Mexican Attorney General's Office, which has been asked to deliver the official report of the autopsy that was practiced to Marin, which did not give details, for example, immigration status or age.
For now only it is known that this woman's brothers went to the Foreign Ministry to ask to verify whether the victim, who initially was identified as Nicole, was his family. "The accompanying continue to complete the process within the framework of the established powers and respect for the autonomy and institutionalization of the United Mexican States," the statement said.
