“A friend who was a great warrior,” Dolcinea’s friend Maria dos Santos Araujo posted on social media. Neia, as she was called, was 45 years old and was killed by her partner this Saturday (aged 26) in Jaragua do Sul, north of Santa Catarina.

Neia was 45 years old – Photo: Personal archive / ND

After the victim’s death, friends and family paid tribute on social media. “I didn’t feel bad with her, she was always there, if she could help, she helped. Very saddened by her passing. Another star to shine,” a friend posted.

In addition to the feeling of loss, the riot: “Until when?”, Posted by another colleague on social networks. According to the SSP (Secretary of Public Security), from January to June of this year, 30 murders of women were recorded in Santa Catarina. Their number is higher than those registered in the same period in previous years: 24 in 2020, 20 in 2021 and 29 in 2022.

According to Neia’s Facebook profile, she was born in Santos and lived in Guaramirim. The time of the wake and funeral of the victim of feminicide has not yet been announced.

Read more about the crime of femicide registered in Guaramirim

As employees of the Civil Police found, surrendering to the Civil Police on Saturday (26), the man reported that he had a fight with his companion, while she was supposed to give him two slaps in the face. He would then hit her and she would fall to the ground, unconscious. However, the actual cause of death was asphyxiation.

Moreover, the testimony of this man contained another contradiction. According to him, the crime could have happened on Friday (25). However, the delegate notes that the body did not have the rigidity of a corpse, which contradicts the suspect’s account. Therefore, the crime could have happened several hours before the man surrendered, that is, on Saturday (26).

So he was arrested red-handed for the murder of a woman. Later, the arrest was transformed into a preventive one. Now the Civil Police is investigating the motives of the crime.