The two friends of Debanhi Escobar, the young woman found dead in a motel cistern in Nuevo León, Mexico, said they fear for their lives after receiving threats on social media.
Saraí and Ivonne spoke with Las Noticias de Televisa about what happened on the night of April 8 after the party the three attended and before Debahni lost track. The next day, the young woman, a law student, was reported missing. It was not until last Thursday that the girl’s remains were recovered from the motel pit.
“We couldn’t get close, for obvious reasons, to the wake because of threats and things like that. But, in the same way, my deepest condolences to the whole family“Ivonne indicated about the funeral events to say goodbye to Debanhi.
“We would not have liked it to have ended that way. We never thought it would reach such a degree…”, he added.
Saraí said that she had known Debanhi for four months, and that they had been going out together for two. While Ivonne clarified that she met her the same day of the party to which the three of them attended in a country house in Escobedo.
“The times we went out were like five times, four, and we went out to parties , and she had never seen it like that until that day”, Saraí specified.
“She was drinking and suddenly she says, ‘I’m bored of being at this party, we’re leaving ‘. And I said, ‘ok, well, if you want,'” she continued.
It was then that they decided to go to another party. But arriving at the site in a taxi, there was no event. At that moment, they go to another alleged party, and again, they run into the empty place.
At a fourth stop, there was an incident with some boys who were with them for the alleged robbery of a cell phone, which apparently turned out to be a mistake.
At a next stop, they remained in the space until approximately 3 o’clock: 50 am until Debanhi allegedly ran out of the place.
“She runs outside alone…first, some people wanted to take her away. we really didn’t know, because they saw it already taken and so on. Ivonne calls me and says, ‘Sari, they want to take Debanhi.’ Scared, I turn around and say, ‘Who wants to take her away?’ So I say, ‘how are they going to take her if we don’t know them?’… ‘Well, we want to take her to her house.’ ‘No, no, she’s coming with us, she’s leaving with us.’ So they said: ‘Well, you know’”.
Then the girls did not see those people again.
“When they took Debanhi down because they were carrying her, she runs to the men’s room, she goes in there, she doesn’t want to come out. She gets stupid saying that we leave her alone, that she doesn’t care, that her parents were lawyers, that she paid us money if we let her, and, after that, she runs off to the pool by herself, and as if she wants to jump. I stop her, and tell her no, don’t worry. She starts waving her hands and telling him to leave her alone. I stand back and she runs again, goes around the pool…”, she recounted
According to the girls, a boy tried to control Debanhi, but she ran out of the fifth and bit her the boy’s shoulder. He and other people, including her friends, had followed her outside.
“We had to leave now, that is, because we worked early in the morning the next day. Another, because of the situation, because she was very ill, that is, we no longer knew what to do, we were really desperate because she had never been like this. I had never seen her like that”, added Saraí.
It was then that Ivonne decided to speak again to the driver who had previously offered them the service.
Upon arrival at the scene, Debanhi ran to the taxi, got in and slammed the door. Supposedly, she asked the other two girls to leave her alone and in peace.
“As she was already out of control, we thought it was convenient for her to leave because if she didn’t want us to help her… She slapped us many times , took us away. Maybe it’s for the best that if he wanted to go and got on, let him go”, explained Saraí.
Saraí assured that she was calling Debahni’s father, but it wasn’t until 8 o’clock: 35 the next day that Mario Escobar called him back.
“I was desperate looking for help. I remembered that she had her cell phone from the time she went to drop her off at my house and that’s why I called her father,” she pointed out.
According to the Nuevo León Attorney General’s Office, the young woman from 18 years old died of a blunt blow to the head. But given the deficiencies reported in the investigation, the authorities have not yet been able to establish whether it was a murder or an accident.
The young women considered the questions against them unfair for having left Debanhi alone .
“We have threats that they are going to kill us, that they are going to make us disappear, that we were the guilty ones, that we are murderers, and many very hurtful comments on our social networks. . That people thought we were to blame and we really closed our networks, because from the beginning, the family, that is, the cousin made a tweet where she spread our names”, questioned Saraí.
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