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The Mexican authorities detain the two alleged perpetrators of the murder of the Fatima girl
The murder of the Fatima girl, a crime that synthesizes sexist terror in Mexico
Mexico City authorities are in a race against the clock to accuse the two people arrested Wednesday night for being suspected of kidnapping, rape, torture and murder of the girl Fatima Aldriguett Antón, a crime that has horrified Mexicans in a country where a dozen women on average are killed daily.
Gladys Giovana Cruz Hernández and her husband, Mario Alberto Reyes Nájera, were captured by National Guard officers in a town in the State of Mexico, near the Mexican capital. The couple has been charged with bribery, after they tried to bribe the officers who arrested them. This crime is not considered serious in Mexican law. The Government of Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum has been strongly pressured to resolve this case, which has led the authorities to quickly develop the investigations and location of the suspects, something uncommon in a nation where 90% of crimes are keeps in impunity. The prosecutor's office has 48 hours from the capture of the two people to get the charge for the kidnapping and murder of the seven-year-old girl.
Omar García Harfuch, secretary of Citizen Security in the capital, said Thursday at a press conference that the arrest was made possible by a complaint made before the authorities. Although he did not specify who denounced the couple, Mexican media have reported that it is an aunt of Mario Alberto, identified as Irma Reyes. Gladys and Mario tried to hide in this woman's house, located in a place known as La Palma, in the State of Mexico. They arrived there on February 15 with their three children and rented a rickety room without furniture where they hid until Wednesday night.
The authorities developed a surprising deployment - which included police officers from the State of Mexico, members of the Ministry of Security of the Mexican capital and the National Guard - which began at seven o'clock on Wednesday morning and concluded with the capture of The couple is late at night. Harfuch has reported that the couple will be transferred to Mexico City once the arrest warrants are obtained from the capital prosecutor's office. "There is a great deal of evidence and evidence to obtain the arrest warrants," said the official. On Tuesday night the couple's house was searched in a neighborhood located southeast of the capital, where objects were confiscated that allow Gladys and Mario Alberto to be linked to the crime. Among these objects was the woman's clothes the day she kidnapped the girl outside her school and plastic straps that, according to Harfuch, were used to immobilize the child.
The authorities investigate the causes of the crime of Fatima. Harfuch rules out that the mobile was "for money." "You have to respect the entire legal process," said the official. Mayor Sheinbaum launched a mea culpa when admitting that the official performance was dominated by a chain of negligence. After six days disappeared, last 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, and the proceeding of the local Prosecutor's Office, which delayed the complaint of the child's disappearance for more than 24 hours.
Sheinbaum has praised this Thursday the work of the capital authorities with those of the neighboring State of Mexico and the federal Government. “Our goal is to eradicate feminicide and we have to act so that there is no impunity. The heinous crime against Fatima is going to be punished. We take the violence alert against women decreed in November very seriously and work to make the city a safe place for women. ”
Despite that alert, Mexico City remains a hostile place for women. A few days before the disappearance of Fatima, the feminism of Ingrid Escamilla, 25, was 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 the violence on the inheritance of corruption and impunity left by previous governments and asks that the manifestations of women not be violent, has enraged the citizens.
