Morelos prosecutor reaffirms autopsy results

( Spanish) — The death of Ariadna Fernanda López in Mexico has confronted this week the prosecutors of the state of Morelos and Mexico City for the causes of the death of this 27-year-old girl, whose body was found by cyclists on October 31 on a highway from the Morelense municipality of Tepoztlán, a neighbor of the Mexican capital.

While the Morelos Prosecutor’s Office —the authority that brought the case because the body was found in its territory— determined that the young woman’s death was due to a bronchial aspiration, the Mexico City authorities contradicted that version after pointing out that it was a a femicide and that a multiple trauma caused his death.

After questions about the causes of the death of the young woman, the Morelos authorities handed over the information to the capital’s Prosecutor’s Office, which defended the results of a second autopsy carried out with “adherence to international standards”, at the request of the victim’s family. , and “practiced by experts in the field,” according to a statement issued by that instance.

The head of government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, accused the Morelos Prosecutor’s Office and its head, Uriel Carmona, of trying to hide the femicide of Ariadna López for “alleged ties” with a man who is accused of having deprived of life to the young woman, without specifying the possible connection between the person involved and the Morelos authorities.

has sought the reaction of the Morelos Prosecutor’s Office to Sheinbaum’s implications, but has not received a response so far. However, on Tuesday the Attorney General of Morelos, Uriel Carmona, said at a press conference: “In real time we are demonstrating that in our work we conduct ourselves with courage and integrity. Courage to sustain our truth according to what comes and integrity to do things according to law. Only those of us who work on this know what that formula implies”.

In addition to a second autopsy, the Mexico City Prosecutor’s Office issued arrest warrants against a man whom it only identified as Rautel “N” and his girlfriend, Vanessa “N”, with whom the Prosecutor’s Office says that the young woman lived together until before his death, both in a restaurant in the Roma neighborhood and at his possible home, according to videos that the capital authorities maintain confirm this relationship.

The capital’s Prosecutor’s Office pointed out that the images captured in a restaurant, in an elevator and in the parking lot of an apartment building in the Roma neighborhood also served to link the couple to the process.

Also on Tuesday, Carmona said that the conclusions of the Mexico City Prosecutor’s Office “are a priori” and “until now they do not know about the autopsy of the Morelos forensic team and yet they have ventured to disqualify that work and that only It will be resolved before judges and courts.

This Friday, was able to speak Friday with Dr. Yazmín Herrera, a legal doctor from the Morelos State Attorney General’s Office and who was in charge of Ariadna’s autopsy, and said that she reaffirms the results of the autopsy carried out by her team.

“The cause of death is a bronchial aspiration due to alcoholic intoxication,” he said in a telephone interview.

Although the capital authorities indicate that the death of the young woman could be due to multiple traumas caused by blows to different parts of the body, Herrera maintained that none of the injuries that they could detect in the expert report could have caused her death.

“Yes, there are injuries in the lower and upper limbs and in the head region. However, none of these injuries is related to an internal injury. None is related to any fracture, it is not related to organ injuries, there are no injuries that can speak of bruises or blows, neither in the brain nor in the heart, nor in the lungs nor in the liver, nor in the rest of the organs. There is no correlation between the injuries that we do observe abroad,” added Herrera.

Due to the discrepancies between the reports produced by the respective autopsies, Sheinbaum said in his daily conference that they will take the case before the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR).

has tried to contact the defense of those indicated by the Mexico City Prosecutor’s Office, but so far we have had no response.

For their part, the victim’s family has said that they hope justice will be done, that the authorities will find those responsible and that the final consequences will be reached.

This fact has caused great indignation in Mexico. According to organizations such as UN Women and the National Citizen Observatory on Femicide, this once again questions the Mexican judicial system.

According to the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System of the Government of Mexico, from January to September 2022, 711 victims of feminicide have been registered in Mexico.