"Do not blame anyone for my death": the radical decision of a famous musician in a list of #MeToo

A well-known Mexican musician committed suicide on Monday after receiving badual harbadment charges as part of the #MeToo international campaign. Before doing so, he explained on Twitter why he ends his life, said the prosecutor.

"It's about Armando Vega Gil", composer and bbadist of the rock band Bottle of jeréz, created in the decade of 1980, commented under anonymity a source of the office of the public prosecutor of the city of Mexico City. His body was found hanging on a tree from his house in central Mexico, the prosecutor added an information card.

"A few hours ago, on the Twitter account #MeTooMusicosMexicanos, a girl m accused me of abuse and harbadment, she says that the episode occurred at the age of 13, this that makes the case very serious.The accusation is false, "said Vega Monday, 63, on Twitter at dawn.

In the long letter he has published on this social network, the musician says that throughout his career, he has been striving "to defend the universal rights of children".

Vega, father of an 8-year-old boy, took for granted that the prosecution it would end his career, in which he won several awards as a storyteller and poet. "My life is stopped, there is no way out. I know that in networks, I have no way to defend my interests, everything will be used against me (…) The least I want, it is that my son is affected by the false accusation that has been done, "he said.

The girl's complaint was posted anonymously in the account. #MeTooMusicosMexicanos. She tells how she met Fortuitously at a musicians' market in Vega more than ten years ago, at the age of 13, and tells how the composer brought her to her home Many times. he was harbading her by taking pictures and making badual comments.

The #MeToo movement aimed at denouncing the attitudes of badual harbadment and rape did not have much strength in Mexico when it appeared in 2017 following the scandal of American producer Harvey Weinstein. music, journalism and even among non-governmental organizations.