San Pedro Sula, Honduras
“I bring you a message: the life of the student will be for yours or for that of your family. If you disappear from here, we have already checked your family’s places, even C…..”.
This is a part of the letter found near the body of Víctor Fiallos Paz, director of the Multipurpose Brisas del Valle de Cofradíawhich, according to preliminary investigations, would have been written under duress.
The murder of the teacher generated great commotion, as it occurred one day after the suicide of a 14-year-old student from the same institute, who was suspended for three days after an electronic cigarette was found on her.
He teaching body He was found in his office with a noose around his neck and hanging from a door key and, although the scene appeared to be a suicide, Forensic Medicine confirmed that he had stab wounds to his neck, establishing that it was a crime.
THE PRESS had access to the letter from which names are hidden for security reasons. In the letter, the professor indicated why his death occurred.
“Comrades, we have lost the battle in the fight to discipline students, 41 years of service and it was confirmed right now,” says part of the letter written on a computer.
Here the text:
With a trembling handI do my last writing.
To relax a little, I went to the campus to pick mangoes.
He entered through the gate. I asked him who had given him permission.
You better see… the walls of this shit… are not high.
I bring you a message: the student’s life will be for hers or her family’s. If you disappear from here, we have already checked your family’s places, even C……
They say that theirs has to be the same as the student, with a bond within a classroom. The deadline is today; At ten in the morning we want to have news.
I couldn’t go out and buy a bow, because it would be very obvious, so with what I have on hand.
To my princes…..my love…and to me…..and……This time I had to choose your life, because it was me or it was you.
Companions, we have lost the battle in the fight to discipline to the students, 41 years of service and he confirmed it now.
Prof. ………., please do not attend my funeral, I do not want snakes at my last moment. If the possibilities are given, I wish to be buried in the Col. Victoria cemetery.
My benefits from all systems, banks, cooperatives, IMPREMA, that are distributed equitably to………
Until eternity
Victor Fiallos
Research
The agents of the Police Investigation Directorate (DPI) continue the investigations to find the identity of the person(s) responsible for the crime.
The teacher was buried on Sunday in a Sampedran cemetery, where the student community expressed its shock.
According to the National Human Rights Commissioner (Conadeh), between 2016 and 2024 the Internal Forced Displacement Unit registered 9,401 complaints from people affected by forced displacement, of which 494 correspond to teachers.
According to the complaints attended to by Conadeh, 71% of teachers reported threats. Other cases include attempted homicide, gender violence, murder of family members and extortion, which places them in a highly vulnerable situation and makes them one of the sectors most affected by violence.
“The teachers’ union is in third place among the occupations with the highest risk, only surpassed by housewives and merchants,” according to Conadeh.
As part of the Conadeh actionsAt the request of teachers, protection measures are managed with the competent authorities. Procedures are also carried out before departmental directorates and the Secretary of Education to facilitate transfers.
In the case of the director of the Polivalente Brisas del Valle, he was not even able to file a corresponding complaint.
