In the face of the social pressure, Lasso announced last week that he would adopt measures to face this kind of crime and defined some actions on Wednesday.

Among them is to create a single registry of violence that will be in charge of the Secretariat of Human Rights and not the Ministry of the Interior, the increase in budgets for shelters and care centers for the victims, among others.

Many criticized Lasso for making these decisions only in response to the media, political and social outrage following Bernal’s murder.

The special commission of the National Assembly that analyzes this case approved a program of appearances and summoned the governor to testify on October 7 along with the victim’s mother Elizabeth Otavalo, and Government Minister Francisco Jimenez.

This Wednesday, Police commander Fausto Salinas confirmed that Lieutenant Germán Cáceres, husband and main suspect of the crime, fled to Colombia by land between September 14-15.

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