“No more impunity for Brenda Pájaro”

On the morning of this Wednesday, May 31, relatives and friends of Brenda Pájaro, the woman who was murdered on July 25, 2018 and found 33 days later in a dusty lot in the Miramar neighborhood of Barranquilla, called for the woman’s cause not to remain unpunished.

“Justice, justice, justice, punishment for Brenda’s femicide,” were the screaming voices heard in the Center for Judicial Services facilities, accompanied by banners with a picture of the woman, chanting that they won’t let her case in. oblivion and that their responsible pays for this crime.

In its place were Brenda’s daughters, who still feel the pain of their mother’s death as if it were yesterday: “I would like to say that we are fine, but unfortunately the role of Mr. Tomas Maldonado’s lawyer – the alleged femicide – They are trying to falsify all the work that the prosecution has done,” said Gissela Durán Pájaro.

He also indicated that Tomás Maldonado Cera, the one allegedly responsible for Brenda’s femicide, is in prison in a Barranquilla prison for another similar case and that he could be released “due to the expiration of time limits”: ” we want that man to be convicted pay for what he did to my mother we have been going for five years since her death and we have no rest a number of hearings have been held and we have had quite a few inconveniences they have tried to process the , which has slowed us down, said Duran Bird.

For his part, the woman’s lawyer expressed concern about the case: “we are deeply concerned that the perpetrator has eight pending trials with the same characteristics and is not being held for my defendant’s case, but for others and one of those already presented a recipe,” said Carlos Medina.

Deivis Pájaro, Brenda’s former lawyer, was also at the sit-in, accompanying her daughters and the women of the Bloque Feminista movement who were present at the sit-in: “Almost five years have passed since the capture of Tomás Maldonado, in this trial we’ve had: three judges, four prosecutors and two prosecutors and not much progress has been made. Evidence has been collected by the prosecution, but almost all of these hearings have been postponed by the defense attorney.” concludes the lawyer.