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The murder of the Fatima girl, a crime that synthesizes sexist terror in Mexico
López Obrador avoids giving a concrete plan to tackle the crisis of femicides
The calm was upset Tuesday night in the Felipe de Jesús alley, in the San Felipe neighborhood of Mexico City. Dozens of officers of the Secretary of Security of the capital moved to this area located in the Xochimilco delegation, to the southeast of the city, to search a house where, according to the authorities, lived the woman who last February 11 collected from her school to Fatima, the seven-year-old girl whose murder has shocked the country. The head of Government of the capital, Claudia Sheinbaum, has reported on Twitter that thanks to the support of citizens they were able to establish the identity of the woman, identified as Jovana, and move forward in the investigation. "We will find those responsible and there will be justice," said Sheinbaum.
The residents of this capital neighborhood, a raft of houses built at random and beaten by poverty, crowded on the outskirts of building number 17, where prosecution experts and officers specialized in criminal investigation and forensic medicine analyzed the interior. Authorities have reported that they found the woman's clothes the day she kidnapped Fatima, the girl's shoes, as well as belts with blood. They said they will analyze the tracks found in the premises. They also did interviews with the neighbors in the area. The newspaper El Universal has reported, citing police sources, that it was the homeowner who notified the authorities.
The commotion generated in Mexico by the murder of Fatima has led the authorities to act urgently to clarify the crime in the face of fatigue and great social pressure. Mayor Sheinbaum herself made a mea culpa when admitting that the official performance was dominated by a chain of negligence. After six days disappeared, over the weekend the body of Fatima Aldriguett Anton was found in garbage bags and with signs of having been tortured. It was a fatal failure of the protocols of the school authorities, who let the girl go with a stranger, until proceeding from the local prosecutor's office, which delayed the complaint of disappearance for more than 24 hours.
The authorities distributed a portrait of the woman who was supposedly taken to Fatima and offered a reward of two million pesos (more than $ 100,000) to whom she gave information to locate her. It was reported that it was a woman between the ages of 42 and 45 and an average height of 1.60 meters tall. According to official information, Fatima was picked up from school by this woman, whom relatives say they don't know. A safety video reveals how the girl is held by the hand. Fatima's body was found in a vacant lot, a few blocks from her house. He was naked, showed blows and was rolled in plastics. Malena Anton, the girl's mother, launched a heartbreaking phrase in front of the media on Tuesday: "This time it was my daughter, but it could have been that of any of you."
The Attorney General of Mexico City has detailed that they investigate the negligence that local officials may have committed in this case, in addition to considering crime as a femicide. One more in a country where 10 women are murdered every day, crimes that have 90% impunity, without the government headed by Andrés Manuel López Obrador establishing a concrete strategy to tackle this scourge. On Tuesday, during his morning conference, the president said that his administration is "addressing the causes" of that violence, but did not present a clear strategy to curb the high rate of femicide.
Mexicans wake up daily listening to horror stories. A few days before the disappearance of Fatima, the 25-year-old Ingrid Escamilla femicide was known, murdered by her partner in Mexico City. This violence has mobilized thousands of women across the country, who protest demanding a halt to this bleeding. The negligence of the authorities and the position of the president, who blames violence on the inheritance of corruption and impunity left by previous governments and that calls for the manifestations of women not to be violent, has enraged the citizenship of a country that counts in hundreds of thousands of their dead.
On Tuesday afternoon Fatima's body was buried to the sound of mariachi music. Dozens of neighbors from his neighborhood in the south of the capital accompanied the funeral procession. They carried flowers and white balloons. A small coffin of the same color was placed in the open hole in the pantheon, between tears, while in other parts of the city dozens of women gave a shout that echoes throughout the Mexican territory: "Not one more."
