Alleged murderer of young gay man in Cancún arrested in Tabasco

After an arduous investigation and the sorting out of the facts, the police arrested one of the possible culprits of torturing, murdering and burning a young gay man in Cancún, carrier of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus, whose death has outraged sexual diversity organizations which have warned that they will carry out a protest.

The State Prosecutor of Quintana Roo stated that the suspect, identified as Isidoro “G”, was the victim’s tenant and was identified through the C5 video surveillance cameras in Cancún as he was leaving the property to flee to the state of Tabasco, where he was apprehended by the police.

It was also clarified that the crime occurred on June 5, when the victim and his murderer were living together in a house located in Cancún; that the young man, although he had burns, died from a blow to the head, and that the detainee has an arrest warrant for homicide in Guanajuato.

Both the Human Rights Commission of Quintana Roo and the National Council for the Prevention of Discrimination, consider the act as a ‘hate crime’ and pushed the investigation. The Cuir Forum and other organizations of sexual diversity in Quintana Roo continue trying to locate the relatives of the deceased without much success and have written to different authorities to clarify the crime and find all those responsible.

For its part, the Ministry of the Interior strongly condemned the crime and called on the government of Quintana Roo to contain the violence directed towards the lesbian-gay community, as this case adds to others (in the same style), where it is evident that a climate of intolerance exists. 

“Faced with the growing violence against LGBTTTIQA+ people in Quintana Roo, once again, we raise our voices to demand justice,” expressed organizations grouped in the Network of Sexual Diversity Activists, such as Foro Cuir, Resilientxs, Defeine, Pride Cancún, among others.

Nadia Fabela, coordinator of Foro Cuir, announced that in recent months there have been three reports of police abuse against people of the community in Playa del Carmen and Tulum, which could not be followed up due to the electoral process in which those involved were working.
These acts of discrimination and violence are happening in the main tourist cities of the Mexican Caribbean, where it is assumed that -because of its high degree of cosmopolitanism and globalization- there should not be such prejudices, which lacerate society and call into question the justice system itself.