Outrage shakes Argentina after murder of Anti-Femicide activist
April 9, 2017
The latest victim of gendered violence in the country was an anti-femicide activist who had been missing for a week.
“Ni una menos!” (“Not one less!”)
“Vivas nos queremos!” (“We want ourselves alive!”)
“Estado responsable!” (“The state is responsible!”)
These were some of the chants heard in the town of Moreno, Buenos Aires, where thousands gathered Saturday (8/4) to protest the femicide of Micaela Garcia, who herself was an activist against sexist violence.
The 21-year-old Argentine had been missing for a week after she had attended a nightclub in nearby Gualeguay. Her naked body was found Saturday morning in a rural area with signs of having been strangled.
Her suspected killer, Sebastian Wagner, arrested the same day, is a serial rapist with previous charges of rape against him. While his original sentencing was to be imprisoned for those instances of rape until at least 2020, when he was convicted in 2010, a judge had reduced his sentence. As such, the target of the protests in Moreno was also Judge Carlos Rossi, who had been responsible for releasing Wagner early.
