Claudia Sheinbaum assured that in CDMX “more femicides are stopped than before”

Claudia Sheinbaum, Head of Government of Mexico City, assured that state governments must fulfill their responsibility in the fight against violence against women and commented that more femicides have been arrested in the capital than before.

In a meeting with various media after an event with residents of San Gregorio Atlapulco in the Xochimilco mayor's office, the state president said that the administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) is working to lower the evidence of the aforementioned crimes.

“We all have to do our work, we all have to do our work to address the issue of violence, of pacification and also to address the issue of violence against women,” said Sheinbaum Pardo.

However, the member of the Movimiento de Regeneración Nacional (Morena) party said that the capital of the country already detained more femicides than before compared to past administrations.

“In the City we have a Femicide Prosecutor's Office, which we installed from the prosecutor's office and then the prosecutor's office, and the efficiency of detention has increased, that is, more people linked to femicides are now arrested, more femicides, than there were before, and that is because of an action protocol that the Attorney General's Office has of Mexico City,” he said.

In addition, the capital's president was questioned whether she considers it prudent to issue a national alert on femicide and replied that it is already activated in CDMX, but that the corresponding measures are in place.

“We, here in Mexico City, have decreed the Alert. We have done a series of actions: a DNA Bank, the Register of Sexual Offenders, the work together with the Public Prosecutor's Office, the work of the Women's Network, of Women's Lawyers, we have to continue to attend every day, because there is also a fundamental issue, which is the issue of women's equality, and the fact that a woman is not seen with discrimination, that women should be allowed to be a person like a man, as anyone is,” he stressed.

Regarding the case of Debanhi Escobar, a young man who disappeared on April 9 and found dead inside a cistern as a result of the work of the Attorney General of the State of Nuevo León, Claudia Sheinbaum said she is already informed about the demonstrations planned to take place this Sunday, April 24 on the main avenues of the CDMX.

“It seems that there is going to be a mobilization of some groups; of course, all our solidarity with families, what women live with, their fathers, mothers, in such a condition and, on our part, what we are doing in the city to always, always support all women,” he said.

It is worth mentioning that not only in CDMX will there be mobilizations to demand justice for the case of the 18-year-old girl, since it is understood that through social networks various feminist groups throughout the Republic have summoned women to speak up for Debanhi's death.

Nuevo León was the first state to witness demonstrations in the case of the young woman, because after the FGE confirmed the discovery of a body in the Nueva Castilla Motel on April 21, hundreds of women mobilized in Monterrey and faced Governor Samuel García the day after the news spread.

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