Botched post-mortem in Mexico killing results in cover-up cost

MEXICO CITY — The killing of a younger lady in Mexico Metropolis introduced accusations Monday that authorities in a neighboring state deliberately botched her post-mortem to cowl up for the killer.

The demise of Ariadna López, 27, introduced up all the problems which have enraged ladies in Mexico: officers blaming the sufferer, poor police investigation and misconduct that has led to a rising variety of unsolved killings of girls.

Mexico Metropolis Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum alleged that the prosecutor of Morelos state, simply south of the capital, had ties to the girl’s alleged killer although she refused to explain their purported hyperlinks.

“It’s clear that the prosecutor of Morelos state tried to cowl up for the killer of a girl due to his ties to the killer,” Sheinbaum mentioned.

The girl’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 on account of intoxication. However officers in Mexico Metropolis mentioned Sunday that they’d proof she was slain within the capital.

Carmona’s workplace didn’t touch upon Sheinbaum’s accusation that the post-mortem was botched or that it was a part of a cover-up.

On Sunday, Mexico Metropolis prosecutor Ernestina Godoy mentioned a brand new post-mortem carried out by Mexico Metropolis consultants discovered “a number of lesions attributable to blows” on López’s physique and listed the reason for demise as “a number of traumas.”

López was discovered lifeless on the aspect of a street final week in Morelos state, house to town of Cuernavaca, a frequent weekend getaway for Mexico Metropolis residents. She had vanished after visiting a restaurant with the suspect and his girlfriend and later visiting his condominium, Mexico Metropolis authorities sid.

On Monday, Sheinbaum confirmed a picture from the condominium constructing’s safety cameras purportedly displaying the suspect strolling by means of a basement storage with the inert physique of a girl over his shoulder.

The suspect, who was apparently a good friend of the sufferer, turned himself in to prosecutors within the northern metropolis of Monterrey on Monday and mentioned he was harmless of the killing. His girlfriend was arrested in Mexico Metropolis.

Some noticed strategies of police incompetence from the beginning. López disappeared from a stylish central Mexico Metropolis neighborhood Oct. 30. Her physique was not discovered till days later when cyclists found her on a path that leads from Mexico Metropolis to Morelos.

Her physique was recognized by relations solely as a result of the cyclists took photographs of the sufferer’s tattoos and posted them on-line in an try to assist establish her.

On Monday, dozens of girls and their supporters marched in downtown Mexico Metropolis to demand justice in López’s case.

“We really feel enraged, impotent, above all, mad,” mentioned Omar Rodríguez Díaz, the sufferer’s brother. “They deal with us like rubbish and that’s unhappy.”

“We wish justice achieved and prosecutor Uriel Carmona to pay the implications of his phrases. He made a mockery of Mexico and of all ladies,” Rodríguez Díaz mentioned.

Sheinbaum is taken into account a number one contender to switch 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 Metropolis has its personal issues with ladies’s killings. A younger lady, Lidia Gabriela, apparently threw herself from a taxi and died on a Mexico Metropolis avenue Wednesday. Witnesses mentioned Gabriela thought the taxi driver was making an attempt to kidnap her and so she leaped from the car

Morelos state has additionally had a very dangerous stretch of girls’s killings.

On Friday, the our bodies of 5 ladies have been discovered within the Morelos metropolis of Cuautla simply south of Mexico Metropolis. The our bodies have been discovered at two completely different spots within the metropolis, referred to as a weekend getaway for Mexico Metropolis 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 form of dispute. Carmona mentioned the our bodies have been discovered close to a hand-lettered signal of the sort typically utilized by drug gangs.