TegucigalpaThe Dominican Republic on Tuesday extradited to Honduras an American accused of killing three ladies in January on this Central American nation, which has the very best price of femicides in Latin America.
“Gilbert Reyes, the U.S. citizen extradited from the Dominican Republic, is in Honduran territory,” Nationwide Police spokesman Edgardo Barahona instructed reporters.
The officer mentioned Reyes was transported on a Honduran police airplane to the Caribbean port of La Ceiba, some 200 km north of Tegucigalpa, after which to the capital, the place he arrived tonight.
Reyes will probably be held on the headquarters of the Particular Forces, east of Tegucigalpa, “till his look earlier than the Supreme Courtroom of Justice” on Wednesday, he pressured.
Reyes, arrested in March, is the prime suspect within the triple homicide in January of his ex-partner Dione Solórzano, and two of her mates, María Antonia Cruz and Nikendra McCoy, on the Honduran island of Roatán.
The American lived in California and incessantly made journeys to the island of Roatan.
The victims went out with Reyes one night time in early January. The subsequent day, the accused left Honduras and hours later the our bodies of the ladies with gunshot wounds had been present in a automobile, in response to police.
The federal government issued a world alert and the person was arrested within the Dominican Republic, prompting Honduras to request his extradition.
“The arrest is a step nearer to justice, though there must be mechanisms to forestall such horrible occasions from taking place,” Regina Fonseca, coordinator of the Ladies’s Rights Heart (CDM), instructed AFP.
She lamented that “a minimum of 130 ladies have been murdered” to date this yr in Honduras, as “a part of a patriarchal tradition.”
“I hope that this homicide doesn’t go unpunished as a result of the truth that he is delivered to Honduras doesn’t essentially imply that there will probably be justice,” he mentioned.
The Observatory of Violence on the Nationwide Autonomous College of Honduras recorded 380 femicides on this nation of 10 million inhabitants in 2023 in comparison with 308 in 2022. 95% go unpunished, its director, Migdonia Ayestas, not too long ago instructed AFP.
In accordance with information from UN Ladies, Honduras is probably the most harmful nation in Latin America for ladies.
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– 2024-07-28 08:41:42
