A man kills his partner in Bolivia to cover up that he was a micro-trafficker

A 21-year-old man strangled his partner in bolivia after she found out that he was a micro-drug trafficker and tried to simulate that the woman’s death was a suicide and not a femicide, the Ministry of Government (Interior) reported Thursday.

The event occurred on February 18, when they found the woman’s body in her apartment in the Bajo San Antonio area in the city of La Paz with multiple injuries and a “brown red substance” in their oral channels, indicated the Minister of Government, Eduardo del Castillo.

“The Police immediately realize that it is not a suicide, but quite the opposite, it was a femicide when they realized that there were a series of injuries to the face and body,” the minister explained.

At first, it was presumed that it was a suicide by intoxication with a chemical substance, but in the investigation it was determined that “the crime scene would have been modified”Del Castillo said.

The results of the autopsy showed that the cause of death of the 37-year-old woman was due to “cerebral anoxia, intrinsic cervical compression and mechanical asphyxia due to manual strangulation” and the case is being investigated for the crime of femicide.

Following the issuance of the arrest warrant against Vladimir I.the Police began to search for the man who was no longer in Peace and they reached the town of San Borja in the Amazonian Beni where they detained the accused.

They also apprehended a man who had messages on his cell phone in which the main suspect told him about the incident and will be prosecuted as an accomplice and the defendant’s father, who is a military man, is also being held in preventive detention.

Del Castillo maintained that the woman’s partner “dedicated to micro-trafficking” in the city of La Paz and that, to avoid being denounced by her, he killed her.

In 2021, 108 femicides were registered in boliviaone of the most violent countries with women, and one of the constant complaints of groups and relatives of the victims is the delay in the application of justice to the aggressors and the corruption in the judicial system.

This situation led to the formation of a government commission to review and identify cases of femicide in which those responsible were released by judges.

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