Yeritza Bautista, survivor of two feminicide attempts, denounced the release of her ex-partner after a court reclassified the charge of attempted feminicide as domestic violence.
Bautista survived the attacks in 2020 in Morelos and in Mexico City. Carlos Enrique Arellano fractured her jaw, caused the loss of five teeth and tried to strangle her. The case only reached trial in the capital and after six years of litigation, three trials and two convictions, the aggressor was released.
The survivor identified magistrates Blanca García Sánchez, Erika Epifanía Reséndiz Ramírez and Rafael Inti Castillo Serrato as responsible for the reclassification. She stated they lacked authority to modify the crime and accused a chain of corruptions and negligence. “It was a chain of evident and clear corruptions, negligence in many ways,” she said.
Bautista noted that protection measures were withdrawn and threats intensified. “Probably he is a fugitive or probably later he will be a feminicide and I will no longer be a survivor, but a victim of feminicide,” she told EFE. She added that the aggressor was released one night before the inauguration of the soccer World Cup.
