The 15th Guarantee Court of Santiago accepted the request of the South Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office and ordered preventive detention for the only accused of the femicide against his partner, early Saturday in the commune of La Pintana.

The man, a cohabitant of the 21-year-old girl, was detained during the weekend at the home of his relatives in the Los Ríos Region, where he fled after suffocating and killing the woman with a short sharp weapon.

Prosecutor Silvana Silva from the South Metropolitan Prosecutor’s Office pointed out that the court accepted her request, since -as she explained- the detainee is a danger to the safety of the population, for which preventive detention is justified.


The court established an investigation period of 120 days.