Last Sunday night, the young woman’s body was found dead inside the 13th floor of a building in the Barbasquillo sector.
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The State Attorney General’s Office ordered that around the death of the model Naomi Arcentales Sabando, which would be a suicide, other tests be carried out to rule out that her death is a case of femicide, this entity said in a statement.
These inquiries are part of the protocol for the investigation of femicides and other crimes involving violent deaths against girls and women implemented by the Office of the Prosecutor.
Last Sunday night, the young woman’s body was found dead inside an apartment on the 13th floor of a building that also houses a five-star hotel in the Barbasquillo citadel, an area of high added value located in the west of Manta .
Among the investigations that will be carried out, the videos of the security cameras of the building where the event occurred and the judicial authorization to carry out the review (exploitation) and extraction of the information from the seized mobile devices have been requested.
On Monday, a lawyer for the deceased reported that Arcentales had filed a complaint for alleged rape.
Given this fact, the Prosecutor’s Office ruled out that this criminal complaint had been made against his partner, the Manabi prosecutor Juan Carlos I., and clarified that it was directed against three people, without specifying her relationship with the subjects.
Likewise, the institution indicated that the institutional directorates of Transparency, Legal Control and Human Rights, through the Gender Team, monitor the progress of the process from Quito to guarantee due access to criminal justice.
The autopsy carried out on the body of Arcentales determined that death was by hanging. “No signs of mistreatment or beatings were observed on his body, and even less stabbing, as was rumored after his death,” said the Prosecutor’s Office.
The young woman will be buried that Tuesday in Pedernales, a canton in the north of Manabí, where she was from. (I)
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