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Transgender guy dies even though law enforcement investigate him in Bali Suspected family members loathe attack

Bali Indonesia Airport. /Image = Yonhap News

A transgender person who went on honeymoon to Bali, Indonesia, died after police investigated him for drug offences.

For the duration of the law enforcement investigation, the loved ones of the deceased was suspected of hateful functions and attacks towards transgender persons and requested for an investigation, but the Indonesian law enforcement deny this.

On the 26th, community media this sort of as Antara Information described that Rodrigo Bentosilla (32), a transgender female from Peru, arrived in Bali with her spouse by plane in the evening of the 6th.

According to studies, Bali customs uncovered products suspected to be narcotics, including marijuana, in his bag, and handed Bentosila around to the Bali law enforcement at the scene.

Bentosilla complained of vomiting and abdominal ache on the 8th although remaining questioned by the law enforcement, and the law enforcement took him to healthcare facility, but he died on the 11th although acquiring treatment.

The police discussed that he had taken an unfamiliar drug in the course of the law enforcement investigation and then complained of stomach agony, but Bentosilla’s spouse and children are demanding a specific investigation, declaring that exact facts about the cause of loss of life has been blocked.

In the course of the law enforcement investigation, attacks, racism and transphobia by the Balinese law enforcement are suspected, and it is argued that this could be relevant to Bentosilla’s death.

On the other hand, the law enforcement explained, “Bentosilla has a heritage of getting many prescription drugs for the therapy of melancholy and schizophrenia, and died of renal, liver and anxious method deterioration.” “There was no assault, and the case was closed.”

Reporter Lee Bo-bae, Hankyung.com newsinfo@hankyung.com