“Ivan” for Borderland Beat
Personnel from the State Prosecutor’s Office moved heavy machinery on cranes to the site to initiate the prosecution.
Elizabeth Ibal and Román Ortega | El Occidental
More than 100 bags with human remains have been extracted from the clandestine grave found in Lomas de San Agustín, in Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, according to the Huellas de Amor collective. That group also found another grave yesterday Thursday, which began to be processed this Friday.
Staff of the State Prosecutor’s Office reported unofficially that they have 104 bags with physical segments.
In a broadcast, members of the collective assured that up to Friday, May 19, 92 bags had been extracted and more were found in the following days. That grave was located at the end of April.
“Until Friday there were 96 bags hiding the information from us, because supposedly there were 54, when the reality was 96, then Monday Tuesday Wednesday and until today (Thursday) we do not know how many have been taken out.”
They also denounced that the agent of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Special Prosecutor for Missing Persons, Paulina Vázquez Méndez, did not allow them to witness at close range the extraction of bodies and bags with remains, a right they have as a collective.
“We are still here. The MP, Paulina Vázquez Méndez violated our rights because they were removing bodies in the open air and we have every right to identify, to see if they are not our relatives and she did not want us to approach us. We saw right now that she took out a head and even though we were telling her that we were able to see it, she continues to say that she is taking out only bags, lying, hiding information”.
New grave found
Huellas de Amor, also located this Thursday another grave in Camino a la Piedrera, in Lomas de San Agustin, also in Tlajomulco de Zuñiga.
Just this Friday, personnel from the State Prosecutor’s Office moved heavy machinery on cranes to the site to begin processing.
Eight graves have been found this year
So far this year, eight graves have been found with a total of 174 victims, of which 37 are pre-identified, of which 31 are men and six are women, according to data from the Special Prosecutor’s Office for Missing Persons.
In San Isidro Mazatepec 1, there were 61 bodies, 20 of them pre-identified; in San Isidro Mazatepec II, there were 23, with seven pre-identified; in Monte Azul, 2, these three in Tlajomulco; in Colinas de San Isidro, Zapopan, six bodies; in El Arenero, 49 bodies, 8 pre-identified; in Santa Cruz del Valle, El Tempizque and Circuito Tlajomulco, with two victims each.