Mexico City. family members, friends and students marched in the university City (CU) in memory of Lesvy Berlin Rivera Osorio, who was killed on the campus of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) on May 3, 2017 for their then sentimental partner.
They also demanded justice for the almost thirty members of the university community who were killed or disappeared in any of the UNAM schools.
Araceli Osorio, mother of the young woman, said that eight years after femicide, there is still no definitive sentence against Jorge Luis González Hernández, “responsible for the murder of my daughter and who was a university worker at that time.”
He explained that while a first 45 -year sentence was issued, the parties appealed and a court decided to increase it to 52 years six months. However, eight years after Lesvy’s feminicide, “He still has legal and economic resources to continue appealing his innocence, to reduce the penalty and to treat by all his means to subtract” from justice.
“There are eight years in which we have evidenced that this justice system is not for everyone. Eight years that we continue to claim a fair sentence, but above all we continue to claim the non -repetition of these acts based on inequality and discrimination,” Araceli claimed.
The walk left the telephone booth in which the body of Lesvy was found, near the Institute of Engineering. A floral offering was placed in the place and photographs of the young student were glued.
They also remembered Aideé Mendoza Jerónimo, a student of the Eastern squad of the College of Sciences and Humanities who lost his life when he was 18 years old after receiving a gunshot wound while taking classes, on April 29, 2019.
The participants in the march also demanded justice in the case of Cinthia Manrique Miranda, a postgraduate student at UNAM, who was found lifeless on April 15 after being reported as missing days before.
“No, no, no, it is not an isolated fact, femicides, they are state crimes!” And “We are not all, we are missing!”, They were some of the slogans with which they marched eight years after the femicide of Lesvy.
In front of the Rectory Tower, the participants conducted an “act of memory”, which consisted of a list pass of 28 women students, graduates, themes and teachers who have been killed or disappeared in some campus or faculty of the highest house of studies since the 70s to date.
“We are doing this walk for the memory of all those who were in the classrooms, who should have graduated, who did not appear and were found by their family or friends,” said one of the protesters.
During the mobilization they showed some “omissions and empty” of university legislation to address these cases. Therefore they demanded gender violence inside and outside the maximum house of studies, and denounced that these types of aggressions are not always attended and investigated by the UNAM authorities.
The march concluded at the Faculty of Economics, where Cinthia Manrique studied a postgraduate degree. Within the institution a memorial was installed with floral arrangements, candles and the photographs of it “and of which we need.”
