2024-02-20 18:21:17
The Government of Mexico City published in the Official Gazette, the Malena Law, which punishes attacks with acid or other chemical substances with penalties ranging between eight and 12 years in prison, and in cases where the injuries cause permanent damage. , will be considered as attempted feminicide.
The law, named in honor of María Elena Ríos Ortiz, survivor of an attempted femicide that occurred in September 2019 and promoter of the initiative, was approved on February 8 in the Congress of Mexico City.
To include “acid violence” within the Law on Women’s Access to a Life Free of Violence, the local Congress approved on February 8 a series of reforms and changes to the legislation to contemplate this type of violence, understood as : “any action or omission that causes or seeks to cause non-accidental damage by throwing, spilling or putting in contact with any type of gas, chemical compound, acid, alkalis, chemical, corrosive, caustic, irritating, toxic, flammable, explosive, reactive substances , liquids at high temperatures or any other substance that by itself or under certain conditions can cause temporary or permanent injuries, internal, external or both, some type of disability or endanger life.
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During the publication of the law, María Elena Ríos stressed that although this initiative emerged as a process of catharsis, she celebrates its approval, because it is an advance so that an attack with acid is never again equated to a bruise and so that acid violence be named and punished.
This law will also promote the creation of a registry of victims of attacks with acid and other chemical substances, with the aim of generating public policies against this crime.
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