The lifeless body of Mayra Tovar, 36, was found inside a bag near a wastewater canal, in the Marroquín neighborhood, in the Aguablanca district. The main suspect in the woman’s murder is her sister’s husband.
The man, father of four children, and his wife They have their home on the first floor of a house in the Manuela Beltrán neighborhood, in the same district of Aguablanca. Residence in which the victim also lived with her 12-year-old daughter, but on the second floor.
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Rejection of violence against women.
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Then, on April 29, a desperate search for Mayra began by her relatives and neighbors in the area, who told the police that her brother-in-law had been seen with a suspicious attitude.
They reject violence against women.
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“We are carrying out the investigation to determine the modus operandi in this murder,” said the officer. He noted that it is being evaluated whether the captured person has psychiatric problems. He would have been a soldier.
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The suspect’s wife, Carolina Tovar, maintained that her partner defends himself, claiming that he is innocent.
In Valle del Cauca there have been 12 murders of women in the Valley in 2024, of which six have been classified as femicides. Among those 12 cases there are two minors.
Where to report gender violence?
Likewise, you can report it on the lines of the Attorney General’s Office at the national number 018000919748, from your cell phone by dialing 122 or in Bogotá at 601 5702000.
If you are in Bogotá, you can call the purple line of the Women’s Secretariat, 018000112137.
At the Cali Metropolitan Police you can report to the Purple Patrol at number 318 8611522.
In the department’s Secretariat of Women, Gender Equality and Sexual Diversity, a call is made for women who suffer gender violence to go to the authorities that are part of the care route for these cases, which is made up of Family police stations. , in cases of psychological, physical and patrimonial violence.
Also in the Prosecutor’s Office, in cases of sexual, physical, property and psychological violence; health institutions, for physical, psychological and sexual violence, and through the Colombian Institute of Family Welfare (ICBF), for psychological, physical, patrimonial, and sexual violence against girls and adolescents.
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