Who are the policemen who murdered Victoria in Tulum

For an administrative offense – consumption of alcohol on public roads – five police officers detained Victoria Esperanza Salazar last weekend at Tulum, Quintana Roo, and they subjected her to the ground so disproportionately that they ended up causing her spine and neck fractures, and inevitably death.

The woman, from Salvador, died in the back of a van when she was transferred to a public prosecutor’s office, according to the police involved. The fault he committed deserved only one presentation before a civic judge.

According to reports from the Quintana Roo Attorney General’s office, the agents involved in the case are four men and one woman. Three are the traffic police and the other two municipal.

The articles have been identified as Michelangelo C, 34 years old and Raúl L, 35, both from Valladolid Yucatán; Erasmo P, 35, from Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas and Alexander C, 38, from Petcacab, Quintana Roo.

The policewoman who placed her knee on the inmate is Veronica V, 42 years old, from Mérida, Yucatán.

Likewise, the police director of Tulum, Nesguer Vicencio Mendez, was dismissed from his post, Lucio Hernández, public security secretary of Quintana Roo, told a press conference.

In the footage, which was immediately released on social media, it is observed how the elements threw her to the ground and, as the autopsy confirmed, they applied unwarranted excess force on the victim. who hadn’t even put up resistance at any time. What we heard were the cries of the inmate who claimed she couldn’t breathe.

Rosibel Arriaza, mother of the Salvadoran migrant, demanded justice for the crime after her body was recognized through photographs on Monday.

“I feel outraged, I feel helpless, I feel frustrated. I would have liked to be there, as a mother, but no. We can’t be everywhere” and she “I didn’t deserve this death“, because “it was an abuse of authority», He declared to the press.

He pointed out that his daughter “was cruelly executed by police in Quintana Roo, Mexico“, For what”I ask for justice for my daughter, because I really don’t see a just cause“and”I think human beings have a right to life no matter what happened at that time“.

He noted that “in the moral field, I would be more than satisfied if these gentlemen paid“.

He said that this crime orphaned two teenagers aged 15 and 16 in Mexico and that “My daughter’s case is compared to (George) Floyd’s case in the United StatesWhich spawned the Black Lives Matter movement.

Rosibel Arriaza recounted that her daughter lived in Mexico, where she worked in the hotel cleaning area, for about five years and that he traveled in search of better living conditions, because it was “single mother“.

Salazar Arriaza’s family arrived at the Salvadoran Foreign Ministry headquarters on Monday to recognize the body through photographs. The victim’s mother claimed that the human rights department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told them that “Yes, they can help us get there (Mexico)“To meet his granddaughters.

He indicated that “It is assumed that a girl is already in the care of the DIF (National System for the Integral Development of the Family)“, While the other does not, because “He is afraid of the police“and”you think the police can do something to you“.

The Salvadoran government condemned in a statement< les actes qui ont causé la mort du compatriote >> and indicated “that it is in communication with the Mexican authorities in order to quickly follow the relevant investigations and to determine the responsibilities to apply all its weight of the law”.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, for his part, he regretted the murder of Victoria Esperanza at the hands of the officers:

“I would like to express my regret for an unfortunate event that happened yesterday in Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico; a woman, Victoria Esperanza Salazar, Salvadoran, was overpowered by the police, by 4 elements of the police from Tulum, from Quintana Roo, she was brutally treated and murdered; It’s a fact that fills us with sorrow, pain and shame», Declared the Mexican president.

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