Arturo “N”, a 44-year-old man, was indicted on May 21 for a femicide committed in December 2020;
however, the Attorney General's Office of Mexico City (FGJCDMX) identifies him as a “possible serial femicide” because
they link him to the deaths of three other women in the mayor's office of Tlalpan.
"Given that a coincidence could be found with other cases, our team of experts
, prosecutors
and investigative police officers are conducting various studies
with other femicides that present similar characteristics
," said Ernestina Godoy, Attorney General of Mexico City. , in a video conference.
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The official reported that the subject was detained on December 11, 2020, as allegedly responsible for the femicide of his sentimental partner, 39, committed on October 31 of that year.
However, “expert scientific evidence” and positive genetic profiles indicate him
as the author of three more femicides:
a 50-year-old victim, which occurred on May 16, 2016;
a 38-year-old on January 6, 2018;
and one of the same age, but it happened on April 28, 2019.
"Investigative police detectives detected similarities in the modus operandi, geographical area of the events, as well as the physiognomic features of the victims," Godoy said.
Arturo “N” has already been linked to the process and is in the East Men's Preventive Prison under
the precautionary measure of preventive detention.
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“I have said it and I reiterate it,
femicide is one of the most painful crimes for our society, which ends up destroying entire families, entire
communities.
That is why we are deploying all the institutional capacities of this prosecutor's office to get to the truth about these crimes ”, stated Godoy in his speech.
Cinthya Amaya believes that her aunt, Lourdes Amaya, is one of the victims of Arturo “N”.
“She disappeared on October 30, went out and we didn't see her again until November 3 when they found her.
I ask that they do justice
and that, if he is the murderer of the other women who have disappeared, then that he pay it, ”Amaya said in an interview with Noticias Telemundo.
Two femicides captured in a week
The prosecution of this alleged femicide in Mexico City arises while public opinion in the country continues to be shocked by the case of Andrés Mendoza, an alleged 72-year-old serial femicide arrested on May 18 in the municipality of Atizapán, in the State of Mexico.
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Mendoza was arrested Tuesday as a suspect in the death of a 34-year-old woman who "had been murdered and dismembered inside a building" where the alleged criminal lived.
"It has been established that this subject could be related to the murder of other people," the authorities indicated after his arrest.
According to local media, he
could have confessed more than 30 deaths over a period of two decades.
The State Prosecutor's Office is now searching his home, informally baptized as "house of terror", skeletal remains and other indications of his alleged misdeeds.
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Investigations in Atizapán
On Friday, agents of the Attorney General's Office of the State of Mexico (FGJEM) continued the investigations at Mendoza's home.
In the municipality of Atizapán, in the State of Mexico, the street where the house is located remained cordoned off and several vans, a truck and an excavator could hardly be seen carrying out investigation work by the FGJEM.
During the afternoon, a cargo truck left the area full of debris and, according to images and videos distributed by the Prosecutor's Office,
inside the home they continue to search for evidence and bone remains.
Although it is speculated that he may be responsible for more than 30 murders, at the moment his prosecution is due to who would be his last victim,
Reyna González, a 34-year-old woman he knew and whose remains were found in the house
, according to the FGJEM indicated in a statement.
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In addition, they also shared the finding of the identifications of two missing women in 2016 and 2019.
The residents of the Lomas de San Miguel neighborhood and nearby neighborhoods try to resume normal life despite the presence of the authorities and the outrage over the crimes.
"I was surprised when this matter started. When I saw the photo of when he was detained, I was surprised that he is the man who was normally my supplier (of cement and other materials) when I was building my house, it has been 15 days since I saw him pass. It was an unpleasant surprise, "said Jorge, a neighbor in the area.
Saúl, a 24-year-old who lives on the street next to the defendant's, said that it is a "quiet, humble and familiar" area, so it was very "surprising" for everyone when two days ago the Police went to San Miguel and, after a search of the house,the alleged femicide was taken into custody.
"I really knew him only by sight but he was known throughout the colony, he was just another neighbor.
We never realized that he was inclined to carry out those acts,
" Saúl added.
During the morning of Friday, several hooded women painted in the Adolfo López Mateos Park in protest of the possible women killed by Andrés Mendoza.
The scandal of these alleged serial femicides erupts as
Mexico faces a crisis of sexist violence with more than 10 women murdered every day,
according to UN Women.
March broke the record as the most violent month against women, since there are records,
with 267 Mexican women as alleged victims of intentional homicide, in
addition to another 95 alleged victims of femicide, as the prosecution offices classify murders for reasons of gender or violence male chauvinist.
The Attorney General's Office of Mexico City declared that in the first
14 days of May they have prosecuted 47 aggressors of women.
With information from EFE, the Attorney General's Office of Mexico City and the Attorney General's Office of the State of Mexico
