This Sunday, January 1, the Investigation police (PDI) reported to be investigating a registered femicide in Osorno, lake region, task during the early morning of the first day of 2023.
The homicide was alerted at about 04:00 this day, after a 22-year-old man, who would be a former police officer, arrived at the Osorno Hospital to verify injuries that he attributed to an argument with his partner, found the Valdivian newspaper.
After approaching the health facility, the subject would have recognized the health officials that minutes before, he had killed his partner, in the Mirasur population, in Rahue Alto.
The actions of the police
after confessing, the man was detained by Carabineros de Osorno. For their part, other troops went to the home where the femicide against a woman of Venezuelan nationality would have been consummated.
The sub-prefect of the PDI, Jaime Quiroz, explained that the victim’s body was removed by the Medical Legal Serviceto perform the corresponding autopsy, to establish the cause of death.
This Osorno case would be the first femicide of 2023 registered in the country. In that line, the National Service for Women and Gender Equity (Sernameg), reported that only during 2022 a total of 41 murders of women were committed, executed by someone who is or has been their spouse or cohabitant, or with whom they have or have had a child in common, by reason of having or having had a romantic or sexual relationship with them without cohabitation.
If you are a victim of some type of gender violence, you can call the Guidance Phone on violence against women at 1455.
