ANDanivis Margarita Luna Rodríguez, 40 years old, is the new victim of a possible femicide in the metropolitan area of Barranquilla.
The woman was found dead and wrapped in a sheet on the morning of Tuesday, June 25, on the terrace of a home in the Soledad 2000 neighborhood.
Authorities confirmed the identity of the woman, after uniformed officers from the Metropolitan Police of Barranquilla and members of the CTI of the Prosecutor’s Office They will carry out an inspection of the property on Carrera 11C and Calle 53, where the lifeless body was found.
The same Police indicated that agents of the Mebar They received an alert about an alleged fight in that same home, but when they arrived at the scene, someone from inside indicated that “nothing was happening,” so the uniformed officers left.
However, minutes later the community would have alerted about the same lawsuit and the uniformed officers returned to the property, finding that the woman had supposedly committed suicide.
As the hours passed, the authorities have changed the direction of the investigation, due to a possible case of femicide. A man, presumably the victim’s romantic partner who was at the place where Luna Rodríguez’s body was found, was transferred to a Prosecutor’s Office headquarters for interrogation.
It was learned that the woman presented a recent judicial record from the month of March in the Oral and Accusatory Criminal System for manufacturing, trafficking and carrying a firearm or ammunition.
Femicide figures in Atlántico
He Observatory of Violence against Women and the Teknos Foundation In recent days, they issued a bulletin with the figures of women murdered in the department of Atlántico in 2023. According to both, there were 44 cases, 41 of them victims of homicide and 3 of feminicide.
While so far in 2024, the number of murdered women already amounts to 35 cases.
“Women are not safe in the department”
In recent days, the deputy Alejandra Moreno Astwood He assured that “women are not safe in the department. The installation of this commission is the first step to review the implementation of public policy on gender equality such as the implementation of the family police station network. We will review investments in this matter such as the shelter home and preventive campaigns”.
Moreno expressed his concern about the absence of representatives of the Attorney General’s Office, calling on the Attorney General’s Office to take action on the matter.
“The absence of the Prosecutor’s Office in the spaces of articulation to respond to the victims is a serious situation. Today, the director of the prosecutor’s office is conspicuous by his absence when it comes to defending the women of the Atlantic,” said Moreno Astwood.
Flor Diaz Ospino
Barranquilla
