• ARRESTS: Local authorities confirmed Wednesday the arrest of two suspects in the case of the murder of a 7-year-old girl in southern Mexico City that has created outrage among Mexicans and tested the capacities of the local and federal governments to confront violent crime.
• CASE: Last Sunday, authorities reported having found the body of 7-year-old Fátima in southeast Mexico City wrapped in garbage bags and with signs of sexual assault. Yesterday, a man and a woman were arrested in a small town in Mexico State, two hours away.
• SUSPECTS: Mexico City’s Attorney General office said they had an arrest warrant against Gladis Giovana Cruz Hernández and Mario Alberto Reyes Nájera, both of who were known to Fátima’s family. According to sources, the family rented some rooms in their house but were recently evicted.
• PUNISHMENT: “Let the full weight of the law fall on them because what they did to a 7-year-old girl is, not only outrageous, it was horrible”, said Ricardo Espinosa, who identified himself as Fatima’s uncle. In 2019, 68 women in Mexico City were murdered because of their gender.
