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Pain and confusion after the delivery of the first women who died in a prison in Honduras

The delivery of the first women killed on Tuesday in a prison in Honduras between burned and killed by shots and with bladed weapons, is carried out in Tegucigalpa between the pain of their relatives and the confusion of many who do not know anything about the relatives they are looking for.

Relatives of inmates from the Centro de Adaptación Social de la Mujer (CEFAS) prison cry outside the detention center after a fire following a fight between inmates in Tamara, some 25 kilometers from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on June 20, 2023. (Photo by Orlando SIERRA / AFP) (ORLANDO SIERRA /)

“I lost my sisters (two) and my wife, who died riddled with shots, it is not known if the police killed her, it is most likely that they were police officers and also people who are incarcerated there,” told EFE angel antonio garciawhile waiting in front of Forensic Medicineof the public ministrywhich they handed over to their three relatives.

He added that his two sisters, Miriam and fanny garciathey were going out on July 1st Center for the Social Adaptation of Women (Cefas)near Tegucigalpa, where they were held for five years and the crime took place, in which 46 women died, according to official information.

His wife, Claudia Vaquedanohad been in prison for a year and had a year and three months left to get out, he said Garciawho also stressed that corruption in Honduras also prevails in prisons, because the entry of firearms, knives, stones and other items is allowed blunt objects

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FAMILY OF THE VICTIMS CRY FOR JUSTICE

Public Ministry spokesman Yuri Moratold EFE that of the 46 women who died in the Cephas23 were due to firearms and blades, while the other 23 due to burns in the fire that broke out during a brawl, apparently between members of two enemy gangs.

“I am looking for the body of my daughter, dead or alive”he told EFE Lourdes Ardonwho arrived early today, crying and desperate to Forensic Medicine in search of information about her daughter Kimberly Izamar Ardón.

He added that until 10:00 a.m. local time today (4:00 p.m. GMT) they had not given him any information about his daughter, whom he is looking for because on Tuesday he heard that among the victims was a “of which they only said that her name is Kimberly”so he presumes that it may be his daughter.

“What I want is to realize it. If she’s dead, well, there’s no way, let them hand her over to me”, expressed the grieving woman, resident in the Nueva Suyapa neighborhood of the Honduran capital.

Ardón demanded the Government who presides Xiomara Castro “Let justice be done, because it wasn’t dogs that killed, but human beings.”

Relatives of inmates from the Centro de Adaptación Social de la Mujer (CEFAS) prison gather outside the detention center after a fire following a fight between inmates in Tamara, some 25 km from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on June 20. of 2023. (Photo by Orlando SIERRA / AFP)

Relatives of inmates from the Centro de Adaptación Social de la Mujer (CEFAS) prison gather outside the detention center after a fire following a fight between inmates in Tamara, some 25 km from Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on June 20. of 2023. (Photo by Orlando SIERRA / AFP) (ORLANDO SIERRA /)

“Although they were deprived of liberty, they did not have to die like this, burned, killed, even with stones. We are many relatives that we are suffering now, what I demand is justice, that this be fixed, that there be no corruption from those same rogue policemen”in prison, he stressed.

Another woman, who only identified herself as Belkistold EFE that he reached Forensic Medicine to look for information about a sister-in-law and a niece, of whom he does not know if they are alive or dead.

“We don’t know anything about them, we are desperate, their daughters are suffering because we don’t know anything about them since yesterday. They were confined in Module 1″of Cephas, he added.

He identified the relatives he is looking for as Maribel Brief48, and her daughter Karla Breve, 33.

Members of the Honduran Red Cross provide psychological help to a relative of one of the 46 women killed during a fire after a brawl between inmates of the Women's Social Adaptation Center (CEFAS), outside the Center for Legal Medicine and Sciences Forensics in Tegucigalpa in June.  (Photo by Orlando SIERRA / AFP)

Members of the Honduran Red Cross provide psychological help to a relative of one of the 46 women killed during a fire after a brawl between inmates of the Women’s Social Adaptation Center (CEFAS), outside the Center for Legal Medicine and Sciences Forensics in Tegucigalpa in June. (Photo by Orlando SIERRA / AFP) (ORLANDO SIERRA /)

Until now Forensic Medicine has identified 23 women, who are the ones who died from shots with firearms and wounds with bladed weapons.

Several of the bodies have already been handed over to their relatives, while ten of them were pending to be claimed, according to the spokesman for the Public ministry.

Yuri Mora also said that the most difficult job, that of identifying the burn victimshas started and that it will take a long time because tests have to be done dna or of denturesamong others, for which they must have the support of their relatives.

Until now it is not known how long it will take to identify burned women in the worst tragedy that occurred in a prison for women in Honduras.

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THEY RECOMMEND ASKING NAYIB BUKELE FOR HELP

The prisons in Honduras, some 25, that make up the Penitentiary System, are true death traps and the most important, according to official sources, are controlled by gangs, known as “gangs”.

The lawyer and analyst Juan Carlos Barrientos today recommended to the Government of castro that you Ask the president for help The Savior”, Nayib Bukelewho “You can send him a couple of advisors on how to control the gangs and prisons”as he has done in his country.

In the same sense, various sectors have been speaking out as a result of multiple violent acts that have been registered in the last two years in Honduran prisons, some called “maximum security”, although there are also those who oppose extreme measures such as those adopted by Bukele.

Source: Elcomercio

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