The family of Claudia Tacoronte, a 21-year-old Spanish university student killed earlier this month in Cuautla, in the Mexican state of Morelos, arrived Friday at the state Attorney General’s Office in nearby Temixco to complete the paperwork needed to bring her body home.
Tacoronte’s father led a small delegation of relatives, accompanied by Morelos Interior Secretary Edgar Maldonado and a representative from Mexico’s National Victims’ Commission. The family asked for privacy during the proceedings, and Spain’s consul declined to speak with reporters. Officials said the body would be released to the family once the paperwork was finished, and it remained unclear whether state Attorney General Fernando Blumenkron would make a public statement afterward.
After leaving the prosecutor’s office, Tacoronte’s father planned to visit Cuautla’s Casa de la Cultura, a cultural center, to lay flowers at the site where his daughter was killed. Authorities say Tacoronte was stabbed to death on the night of September 12 while participating in an academic exchange program in Morelos.
A suspect, Francisco Javier Meléndez Alguera—known by the alias “El Trompas”—has been arrested in connection with the killing, which authorities are treating as a femicide, a term used across Latin America for the gender-motivated murder of women. He was booked into a men’s prison in Cuautla the night before the family’s visit.
Read the original report at Reforma for more details.
Source: Arriba familia de española a FGE-Morelos para recibir cuerpo (Reforma).
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