Mexico: Police say bones found in supposed clandestine crematorium are from animals

Followed by search dogs and police, Maria de Jesus Soria Aguayo and more than a dozen volunteers walked carefully Wednesday through dry fields in southern Mexico City with his gaze fixed on the floor.

The group was searching for human remains and other evidence after volunteer investigators said the site could be a clandestine crematorium.

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The search was carried out after Ceci Floresleader of a group searching for bodies of missing people in Mexicoannounced on social media Tuesday night that its team found bones, clandestine graves and identification cards around a charred grave at the site.

We found human remains in Mexico City, the mothers in the search asked me to come, and yes, we found a clandestine crematorium, and what hurts most, women’s credentials from the INE and children’s notebooks.
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– Ceci Flores 6623415616 (@CeciPatriciaF) April 30, 2024

Although, Ulysses Laraattorney general of Mexico Cityrejected those claims Wednesday night, saying authorities found 14 bones and all were from “Animal origin”.

“We can say that it is not a crematorium, nor a clandestine grave.” he declared.

Flores’ announcement a day earlier attracted attention because it was the first time in recent memory that someone claimed to have found a site used for disposing of bodies in the Mexican capital.

If such a location were found, it would be a blow to the ruling party Brunette in the weeks leading up to the June 2 elections. Morena says violence in Mexico did not spread to the capital while the party was in charge of local government.

Wednesday’s search highlights the hard work many Mexican families face as they search for the remains of 110,000 people who have been reported missing across the country amid drug cartel violence. drug trafficking.

Volunteers, like Maria de Jesus Soria Aguayo, are largely mothers of missing people. They formed their own independent groups to search regions of Mexico affected by the violence.

To the “looking for mothers” Normally they do not tend to look for culprits for the kidnapping of their relatives. They say they are just trying to find his remains. Many families say that not knowing definitively what happened to a family member is worse than knowing that they are dead.

“My search began alone. To trace with my own hands. To search alone in the field“, said Soria Aguayo, 54, whose son’s remains were recovered in the state of Vera Cruz in 2022.”My commitment to them is to continue until he says nothing more, I will stop there… because we are losing too many”.

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The Mexican government has invested little money in the search for the missing, so volunteers make their own attempts to find clandestine graves where cartels hide their victims.

If the volunteers find something, the most the authorities will do is send a team of police and forensic doctors to collect the remains, which in most cases are never identified. The government also failed to adequately fund or implement a genetic database to facilitate the identification of human remains.

Searches increasingly have lethal consequences. At least seven activists searching for missing people in Mexico have been murdered since 2021.

Groups of volunteers have been angered by a government campaign to find missing people, going to their last known address to see if they returned home without notifying authorities. Activists claim that this is just an attempt to reduce the shameful number of missing people.

Speaking about some of the evidence previously found at the scene, Lara said in the morning that police went to the addresses that appeared on the recovered identity cards and “It was verified that the people holding the aforementioned identifications are alive and in good health.”.

Lara indicated that one of them, a woman, told the police that her identity card and cell phone were stolen approximately a year ago, when thieves snatched them from her hands while she was in a traffic jam. Although this ruled out the possibility that the woman’s body had been dumped there, it suggested that the criminals used the location to dispose of evidence. In the leafy, rural outskirts of Mexico City, it is not uncommon to hear criminals dumping the bodies of kidnapped people.

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After hours of searching the fields south of the Mexican capital, the volunteers found nothing.

Although some members of the group doubted they would find any bodies, Flores said they planned to continue the search, noting they had already been searching the area for two days after receiving an anonymous tip. Volunteers like Flores often carry out their own investigations, sometimes relying on tips given to them by former criminals.

“If you don’t look, you won’t find them.” he declared.

Source: Elcomercio

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