Four months after the death of Debanhi Escobar, the Attorney General's Office will attract the investigation folder of the case at the request of the parents of the 18-year-old girl.
The Undersecretary of Public Security, Ricardo Mejía, has reported this Thursday that the Nuevo León Prosecutor's Office will formulate a criminal charge in the next few hours against those who obstructed the action of justice at the beginning of the investigation and, once this process is concluded, The federal Public Ministry will attract the investigation of the girl, who disappeared on April 9 and whose lifeless body was found two weeks later on the outskirts of Monterrey.
After three autopsies and dozens of versions found, the Federal Prosecutor's Office will finally take the case into their hands.
"The Secretary of the Interior, Adán Augusto López Hernández, has already entered into communication with the Attorney General [Alejandro Gertz Manero] to formalize the request for attraction under Debanhi Escobar's request," the Undersecretary of Security at the National Palace.
The attraction of the investigation folder occurs on the verge of the 15-day deadline that Debanhi's father, Mario Escobar, gave the authorities to find evidence of possible people involved in the young woman's death.
The father of the victim reproached this week for the lack of interest on the part of the State Public Ministry to clarify the alleged femicide of his daughter.
"The prosecutor, until now, after 100 days, after we showed them, agreed that now we are going to investigate it as a femicide," Escobar said Wednesday.
Debanhi's disappearance after attending a party in the early hours of April 9 and the subsequent discovery of his body in the motel cistern, which had already been searched by state authorities on up to four occasions, revealed the chain of irregularities in the investigation. mistakes that cost two local prosecutors their jobs and precipitated the involvement of the federal government in the face of escalating indignation.
Just a month ago, the authorities presented the results of the third autopsy performed on the young woman's body.
According to this latest expert report, Debanhi Escobar died of suffocation.
The final report refutes the first cause of death: deep head trauma and leaves even more questions about the last moments of the young woman's life.
Faced with the labyrinth of unanswered questions, dead ends and the growing wave of indignation, the federal government has gradually taken more control of the investigations.
Since last May, the Ministry of Public Security offered scientific and intelligence support to "get to the truth."
Four months and three autopsies later, the truth is still out, but Debanhi's death has become a symbol of the disappearance and murder of women in Mexico.
Her death has filled thousands of Mexican women with outrage.
And while the parents of the young woman are still waiting for the death of her daughter to be clarified, the numbers of femicide in the country continue to rise.
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