Arrested the alleged person responsible for the murder of the Spanish student in Mexico

BarcelonaMexican authorities arrested on Thursday the alleged perpetrator of the murder of Claudia Tacoronte, a 21-year-old Spanish student who was stabbed on September 12 in the municipality of Cuautla, in the state of Morelos. The detainee is Francisco Javier, known as El Trompas, against whom the Morelos Prosecutor's Office had issued an arrest warrant.

The Secretary of Security of Mexico, Omar García Harfuch, reported on the arrest, the result of a coordinated operation in which the navy, the National Guard, the Attorney General's Office of the Republic, and state authorities participated, and which comes five days after the crime.

The police have arrested the alleged murderer in Cuautla, the same town where on Saturday, shortly before nine in the evening (local time), he allegedly perpetrated the attack that ended the victim's life. The events took place at the city's House of Culture.

Tacoronte had arrived in Mexico in mid-August to complete an academic stay at the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos (UAEM). The young woman, a student at the University of Granada, resided in Cuernavaca and had attended a traditional medicine fair in Cuautla.

The crime has sparked indignation inside and outside Mexico, especially after it became known that Tacoronte is the fourth UAEM student murdered in seven months, following three other cases that had already generated student protests and strikes. In Mexico, an average of ten women are murdered every day, and a quarter of this figure is processed as femicides.