Devanny García
Age 4127 Feb 2024
Ciudad de México, CDMX (Mexico)
Beaten
TDoR list ref: tgeu/tdor2024/27-Feb-2024/Devanny García
Devany died in hospital after being attacked over an extortion payment.
Mexico City ranks first in transfemicides with eight cases this year, half of those registered in the country, the latest being that of Devanny García, whose death last February was the result of a “protection fee” in her work area, on Calzada de Tlalpan, in Cuauhtémoc.
Arlen Palestine, legal representative of the Elisa Martínez Women's Street Support Brigade, said that 1,200 trans women work intermittently on the road, and are "forced to pay a fee of between three and four thousand pesos."
The lawyer claimed that “the payment of the rent is very subtle or forced, and is still violent,” and that after Devanny refused to pay, she was attacked, “being hit in the head with heels” which caused her to lose mobility and then fall into a coma.
She commented that the Tlalpan road is “more remunerated” than La Merced, which is why around 1,200 trans women work there, at different times and in different areas, but given the lack of progress in the investigation, there is fear.
Usiel Almaguer, Devanny's partner, demanded justice because "she was a victim of violence for collecting protection money in Tlalpan, near the Chabacano Metro, and lost her life, so I ask the authorities to arrest whoever did it, so that there is no impunity".
She mentioned that other colleagues have been assaulted and that is why "there is concern that the case will be brought to justice, so that there is not one more victim, and the investigation file can be completed."
Devanny's Facebook profile is https://www.facebook.com/devanny.garcia.353.
https://www.jornada.com.mx/noticia/2024/03/13/capital/cdmx-primer-lugar-en-transfeminicidios-384
