Portrait of the man who killed Rebeca in Bilbao
Leonel is 44 years old and lived with his victim for less than a year
Their previous partners talk about insults, beatings, humiliation and attempts to strangle
Rebeca was stabbed to death on the floor of the bar she ran and her killer left her lying there until the next morning
It is fair to name and face the victims of the sexist violence so that they stop being one more number in a cold and too long statistic. The last woman killed in Bilbao at the hands of a man is named Rebeca Huayta Huacan I had 45 years you were natives of Patacamaya (Bolivia). Despite his age, he was already grandmother of a 7 year old girl. When two decades ago he arrived in Bilbao to seek a better life, he could not imagine that he would die in this city, so many kilometers from where he was born, at the hands of a compatriot.
And there he is. his killerthe fact that he stabbed her to death last Tuesday and he left her lying on the floor of the Hilargi bar on Calle San Francisco in Bilbao, which they both ran, until the next day. Leonel BT, whom all his acquaintances call Leo. United Nations 44 year old Bolivianborn in Cochabamba with whom Rebeca lived together for less than a year.
I had not set foot in jail
His previous partners have narrated to other media, such as El Correo, episodes of extreme violence that now, given the way he has taken Rebeca’s life, it is hard to believe that she herself had not previously suffered. insults, puncheshumiliation and attempts to strangle they mark the history of this man who made work in a domestic reform company compatible with martyring their partners.
Had been Arrested numerous times for gender violence, but had never been in jail. Now, after ending Rebeca’s life by stabbing her and leaving her on the cold floor of the Hilargi bar, He has been sleeping in the dungeons for two nights from a police station in the Biscayan capital waiting to be taken before the judge. It will be justice that determines if, finally, Leonel finds his bones in jail.
While Rebeca will return to her country. She dead. The Government of Bolivia has already announced that it will take care of the repatriation expenses of his body.