Ciudad Juárez.- “There was a lot of blood that was lying around the home,” said the official from the Municipal Public Security Secretariat (SSPM) before the Trial Court at the start of oral trial 211/2024 held this Tuesday.
The violent scenario described by the preventive police corresponds to the house located on Casa Redonda and Barrancas de Urique streets in the Misiones de Creel subdivision, where the agent, together with a policewoman, detained Guadalupe AS in June 2023, then 38 years old, for the crime of attempted femicide.
Sitting in the special chair for witnesses, placed in front of the judges, the officer answered the questions of the public prosecutor, assigned to the Specialized Prosecutor’s Office for Attention to Women Victims of Crime for Gender and Family Reasons (FEM).
The SSPM report of June 8, 2023 states that the victim had various injuries to his body and head.
It was the woman, who was found lying in a large pool of blood, who allegedly pointed out her romantic partner as the person responsible for causing the injuries with a machete, the SSPM reported last year.
Adrián Sánchez, spokesperson for the Municipal Public Security Secretariat, reported that the agents responded to a call where they reported violence against women in the Misiones de Creel subdivision and at the scene, police heard screams for help coming from inside the home, so They entered to safeguard the person’s integrity and noticed a man with a machete in his hand, whom they managed to place under arrest.
Data from the District Attorney’s Office in the Northern Zone indicate that that same year 153 women were murdered on this border. Crimes against women, not all of which were classified as femicides, as well as cases of family violence, place this border at the top of the most violent cities against women.
The woman, whose identity is withheld because she is a survivor of an attempted femicide, was one of the victims whose lives were saved, thanks to the intervention of the preventive police.
The officer stated that when he and his co-worker got out of the patrol car and entered the private property, he found the man, the alleged aggressor, who was carrying the machete in his hands.
“When I look at it with the machete, the injured person was not inside the room, he was between the frame and a bedroom. It was a person lying covered in blood, in the middle of a pool of blood, so I told the person ‘I’m a municipal police officer, throw the machete’ and even then he didn’t resist,” said the officer.
He remembered that the man threw the knife.
He explained that because of the experience he has as a first responder, he handcuffed him.
“The first thing I thought was that I had hit the woman with the machete, I put the handcuffs on her and my partner approached with the female and felt her pulse and she was alive; “What I did was secure this person (the accused) and I took him out to the patrol,” he added.
He said that given the amount of blood they saw in the house, the first thing they believed was that the victim was dead.
“My partner checked the pulse of the female who looked quite injured, we thought she was dead, it was the first thing I thought because of all the blood that was lying around the home,” the officer added.
This Wednesday the presentation of more witnesses will continue, among which are specialized experts, forensic doctors and investigating police, as well as relatives of both parties.
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