MEXICO CITY –
The killing of a younger lady in Mexico City introduced accusations Monday that authorities in a neighbouring state deliberately botched her autopsy to cowl up for the killer.
The dying of Ariadna López, 27, introduced up all the problems which have enraged girls in Mexico: officers blaming the sufferer, poor police investigation and misconduct that has led to a rising variety of unsolved killings of ladies.
Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum alleged that the prosecutor of Morelos state, simply south of the capital, had ties to the lady’s alleged killer although she refused to describe their purported hyperlinks.
“It is clear that the prosecutor of Morelos state tried to cover up for the killer of a woman because of his ties to the killer,” Sheinbaum mentioned.
The lady’s physique was discovered final week in Morelos, so officers there initially investigated.
Morelos state prosecutor Uriel Carmona mentioned a state forensic examination confirmed López choked on her personal vomit because of intoxication. But officers in Mexico City mentioned Sunday that they’d proof she was slain within the capital.
Carmona’s workplace didn’t touch upon Sheinbaum’s accusation that the autopsy was botched or that it was a part of a cover-up.
The Morelos state anti-corruption workplace introduced later Monday that it had opened an investigation into “possible crimes” and “alleged acts of corruption committed by personnel of the Morelos state prosecutors’ office.”
On Sunday, Mexico City prosecutor Ernestina Godoy mentioned a brand new autopsy carried out by Mexico City consultants discovered “several lesions caused by blows” on López’s physique and listed the reason for dying as “multiple traumas.”
López was discovered useless on the aspect of a highway final week in Morelos state, house to the town of Cuernavaca, a frequent weekend getaway for Mexico City residents. She had vanished after visiting a restaurant with the suspect and his girlfriend and later visiting his condominium, Mexico City authorities sid.
On Monday, Sheinbaum confirmed a picture from the condominium constructing’s safety cameras purportedly displaying the suspect strolling by a basement storage with the inert physique of a girl over his shoulder.
The suspect, who was apparently a pal of the sufferer, turned himself in to prosecutors within the northern metropolis of Monterrey on Monday and mentioned he was harmless of the killing. Another lady, described because the suspect’s girlfriend, was arrested in Mexico City.
Some noticed options of police incompetence from the beginning. López disappeared from a stylish central Mexico City neighbourhood Oct. 30. Her physique was not discovered till days later when cyclists found her on a path that leads from Mexico City to Morelos.
Her physique was recognized by kin solely as a result of the cyclists took pictures of the sufferer’s tattoos and posted them on-line in an try to assist establish her.
On Monday, dozens of ladies and their supporters marched in downtown Mexico City to demand justice in López’s case.
“We feel enraged, impotent, above all, mad,” mentioned Omar Rodríguez Díaz, the sufferer’s brother. “They treat us like garbage and that is sad.”
“We want justice done and prosecutor Uriel Carmona to pay the consequences of his words. He made a mockery of Mexico and of all women,” Rodríguez Díaz mentioned.
Sheinbaum is taken into account a number one contender to change President Andrés Manuel López Obrador in 2024 elections. The dispute Monday units up a battle with the governor of Morelos state, who’s an ally of López Obrador however not a member of his Morena occasion.
Mexico City has its personal issues with girls’s killings. A younger lady, Lidia Gabriela, apparently threw herself from a taxi and died on a Mexico City road Wednesday. Witnesses mentioned Gabriela thought the taxi driver was attempting to kidnap her and so she leaped from the automobile
Morelos state has additionally had a very dangerous stretch of ladies’s killings.
On Friday, the our bodies of 5 girls had been discovered within the Morelos metropolis of Cuautla simply south of Mexico City. The our bodies had been discovered at two totally different spots within the metropolis, often known as a weekend getaway for Mexico City residents.
The prosecutor in Morelos state mentioned the killings appeared to have been carried out by a drug gang, presumably as a part of some kind of dispute. Carmona mentioned the our bodies had been discovered close to a hand-lettered sign of the type usually utilized by drug gangs.