The family of a woman in British Columbia was in Calgary on Saturday to protest the consulate of Mexico.
Kiara Agnew23 years old, was killed on vacation with her boyfriend in Mexico in March 2023.
Agnew grew up in New Brunswick before moving to her adolescence in Dawson Creek, where as an adult, she worked in a box.
The young woman left the community in northern British Columbia with her partner to celebrate her 24th birthday on the Riviera Maya.
She was never able to enjoy the holidays.
Agnew and her boyfriend arrived in Playa del Carmen, where the family said that the couple planned to sail, go to snorkel and visit Mayas ruins.
The next day, Agnew’s family in Canada was informed of his death.
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On March 3, 2023, Mexican police said She was found dead in a vacant laundry room With “possible brands of violence”.
His boyfriend was arrested and charged, But then acquitted in a Mexican audience room last September After being recognized as not guilty in the alleged female. Global News does not name it because of its acquittal.
The femicide, defined as the murder of a woman for gender reasons, was added to the federal criminal code of Mexico in 2010, in the middle of a spectacular increase in violence against women.
As Craig Momney explains in the video above, Agnew’s family thinks that the young woman did not obtain the justice she deserved.
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