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| - Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday condemned the killing of a Salvadoran woman at the hands of police and vowed "no impunity" for those responsible. Victoria Esperanza Salazar "was subdued by four individuals," Lopez Obrador said of Saturday's incident in the Caribbean beach resort of Tulum. "She was brutally treated and murdered. It fills us with sorrow, pain and shame," he added, speaking at the inauguration of a virtual international forum on gender equality. "All those responsible are going to be punished. They are already in the process of being prosecuted and there will be no impunity," Lopez Obrador said. Oscar Montes de Oca, prosecutor for the state of Quintana Roo, home to Tulum, told the Milenio television network that the police used "disproportionate force" which caused a fatal spine fracture. Salazar, a mother of two, was involved in an altercation with the manager of a grocery store, who called the police, he added. Montes de Oca said the four officers were already in custody and would be brought before a judge to face the charge of femicide, which is punishable by up to 50 years in prison. El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele called for those responsible for her death to face justice. "I am sure that the Mexican government will apply the full weight of the law to those responsible," he wrote on Twitter, adding that "there are bad people everywhere, let's not forget that." sem/dr/ft
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