The case has dominated national newspapers, broadcasts and social media for more than a week
. Femicide, the killing of a woman or girl for her gender, has been a crime in Colombia since the passage of the Rosa Elvira Cely law in 2015. Cely, 35, a single mother who was raped and killed by an acquaintance in a Bogotá park in 2012, has become a national symbol of gender-based violence.Article content
“It is sexist language that leads to the question: What did the victim do to provoke her aggressor?” she said. “The attorney general’s office should show more discretion, more respect toward the victims.” Mariana Botero is coordinator of Rosario University’s law clinic on gender-based violence. Even after the passage of Cely’s law, she said, fighting femicide here remains a challenge.
Investigators say surveillance footage taken at the building where Trespalacios and Poulos were staying that day shows Poulos leaving with a suitcase in a shopping cart covered in what appears to be a blanket. The Wisconsin native appears to struggle with the weight of the luggage as he stows it in the trunk of a rented vehicle. Records show he then caught a flight to Panama.
Trespalacios’s friends and family have told investigators that the couple had a yearlong long-distance relationship, police records show. They met around four times in Mexico and Colombia before moving in together Jan. 20.
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