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This article was translated and reposted from EL OCCIDENTAL
Román Ortega | El Occidental
Three weeks after the discovery of the graves of Brisas de la Primavera, in Zapopan, agents of the State Prosecutor’s Office and experts of the Jalisco Institute of Forensic Sciences have located 115 bags with human remains.
Between Monday and Tuesday, the Prosecutor’s Office and Forensic Science personnel found five more bags between Wednesday and Thursday, in grave number 10 detected in the property where they began working on November 9.
Maria de Lourdes, member of the Luz de Esperanza collective, explained that on Friday they will work in grave number 11.
“Yes, it is affirmative, there are 115 bags. This site is still being processed. Yesterday they worked on 9, 10, and today they were working on 10, 5 bags were found. Tomorrow they will start with point number 11”.
Originally they had detected seven positive points, but this week they identified one more site with possible human remains in an extension of 70 square meters.
Hector Flores, also founder of the collective, indicated that due to the conditions in which the human remains have been found, the identification work has not advanced, so they are still waiting for the results from the Jalisco Institute of Forensic Sciences.
“Unfortunately no, the processing on the part of the Jalisco Institute of Forensic Sciences, is going very slow, apparently they have not uploaded many of the remains, then we are waiting for this processing on their part to advance, to tell us, to see how many bodies, how many bodies these remains correspond to”.
On Monday, November 6, and Tuesday, November 7, dogs in the area found a skull and a leg. Neighbors noticed them and reported them to the authorities, who began the search for more human remains on Thursday, November 9.
Data from the State Prosecutor’s Office indicate that this year there are 17 clandestine graves with 257 bodies exhumed in the state.
Figures from the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Missing Persons indicate that the graves with the highest number of bodies located are the one called San Isidro Mazatepec, with 61 victims; followed by the sand pit with 50; in third place is the one on the road to La Piedrera with 57.
Source: EL OCCIDENTAL
