“If they did not get the shift 48 hours before, they cannot repatriate the body
,” that was the cold response of the Argentine Customs to the family of Nahuel López, one of the six fatal victims of the tragic crash in Playa del Carmen, who after collecting peso by peso in a massive collection and paying for all the procedures abroad, they still cannot say their last goodbye to the young man.
“We need the authorities
to enable us to receive my brother's body
.
Everything is ready, everything scheduled, so that tomorrow, at 10:50, the flight leaves and customs does not want to receive it,” says Florencia López, Nahuel's sister, with despair.
“It's all so
bureaucratic
, we call and they don't give us any money,” she adds.
No person is prepared to receive the news that they have lost a loved one, much less abroad.
The family of San Martín, from the west of Buenos Aires, learned little by little, and intuitively, how they should act to be able to repatriate Nahuel from Mexico.
With a lot of effort, thanks to everyone's help, they were able to pay for the funeral in Mexican lands and the countless procedures that a situation like this requires abroad.
“Customs are very secretive entities, we have already managed to solve everything bureaucratic in another country, which is supposed to be much more difficult because it is another State.
It cost us around
$8,000
for the sealing, taxes, wake, flights and more.
We have everything, we just want our country to let us pass my brother's body,” he remarks to
Clarín
.
And he adds that the Argentine authority only allows the family to repatriate Nahuel only on Sunday of this week.
This, in addition to understanding the agony even more, would also
entail another extra expense
and a new collection.
Nahuel's mother, Laura, had gone to the Foreign Ministry offices in Buenos Aires on Monday and they were given a list of funeral homes in the Playa del Carmen area so they could look after her son.
“From the Foreign Ministry, that was all the help we received.
There is no law that protects families in these cases in which repatriations are requested, and all costs and logistics must be assumed by the family members themselves.
I wonder
why in the case of imprisoned people the State assumes all the costs of extraditions
, but does not provide a solution in cases like this,” he said in an interview with this medium.
Nahuel's remains were laid to rest on Tuesday at a funeral home in Cancun where friends, acquaintances and his girlfriend, Macarena, also Argentine, attended.
The 28-year-old had lived in the city for two years and had arrived in the country in search of better job opportunities.
As the months passed he made his way into modeling.
“Enough of prolonging the agony, we want the Government, any authority, to enable us to bring my brother's body.
We all made a collection, they already unlocked everything from Mexico, we want to bring my brother, someone please do something.
“We are desperate,” he says at the end of Florencia.
The fatal accident
The road incident occurred this Sunday afternoon on a route in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo where a Suzuki truck in which the Argentines were traveling lost control, crossed lanes and ended up hitting a van that was parked.
The group of Argentines was returning from Belize after completing a procedure to renew their stay in Mexico, and in that context the tragedy occurred.
The Argentines who were killed are five: four men and one woman.
These are Vanesa Paola Silvia Díaz, Ezequiel Hernán Sibella, Gerónimo Amengual, Maximiliano Nicolás Laviano and Nahuel López.
The identity of the Mexican who was in the van and died was also known: Freddy Omar Quijano Carrillo, 33 years old.
In addition to the six fatalities, this Tuesday, sources from the Foreign Ministry in Mexico confirmed that both surviving Argentines remain hospitalized: Lucas Figallo in "observation", and the other Argentine, the photographer Micaela Papiermeister, in "reserved status."
MG