The alleged feminicide of Ariadna Fernanda López surrenders to the authorities in Mexico

A man accused of the femicide of Ariadna Fernanda López Díaz, who was last seen alive in the Roma Sur neighborhood of Mexico City on October 30, surrendered this Monday to the authorities of the state of Nuevo León, in the north of the country.

The authorities of Mexico City were looking for Rautel N for his alleged involvement in the femicide of the 27-year-old woman, mother of a 5-year-old boy, after they determined that the cause of her death had been due to beatings and not due to an intoxication with alcohol, as the Prosecutor's Office of the neighboring state of Morelos had initially indicated.

Accompanied by his lawyers and in the presence of some of the media, Rautel N denied having been involved in the young woman's murder.

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Rautel N. and Ariadna Fernanda López DíazFGJCDMX

“I just found out that I have an arrest warrant issued against me, issued by a judge in Mexico City, I am innocent of what I am accused of, I did not kill her, that is why I have come to face justice.

Just as the case has been in the media, I trust in justice and in God who knows that I am innocent, "she declared from Monterrey, Nuevo León, where she was supposedly working.

López's body was found on the side of a highway that connects the south of the Mexican capital on Tuesday of last week in an area of ​​Morelos where there are several tourist destinations.

He had bruise marks on his neck, face and arms, according to authorities.

A first autopsy carried out by the Morelos Prosecutor's Office had indicated that the young woman had died of a bronchial aspiration, supposedly caused by excessive alcohol consumption.

However, the Mexico City Prosecutor's Office performed the autopsy itself at the request of the family and determined that the reason for her death "was a multiple trauma, which is classified as fatal."

The head of government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, accused the Morelos prosecutor this Monday afternoon of covering up the young woman's murder and asked the federal authorities to investigate him as well.

“It is a case of the prosecutor, he was appointed by the previous Administration.

How is it possible that there is a prosecutor who deliberately covers up, ”he questioned.

"What interests me is that it is shown that there is a prosecutor who is covering up," she added.

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A review of the October 31 recordings of the security cameras of the Mexico City police located in the Roma neighborhood indicated that a man left an apartment carrying a woman who appeared unconscious and motionless on his shoulder.

He went to the parking lot and got her into the car.

The authorities determined that the individual was Rautel N and that the victim he was carrying was López.

According to the Prosecutor's Office, in a search of the house where Rautel N and López had been seen during a meeting, the experts found, with evidence of luminescence, blood on the living room floor and on a cushion, as well as in the bedroom.

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In the morning, the head of the Government of Mexico City, Claudia Sheinbaum, reported that the authorities managed to locate and arrest Vanessa N in Ecatepec, State of Mexico, who was allegedly involved in López's death.

"The investigation carried out is solid and clear, and our commitment is to arrest all those responsible," he said on his Twitter account.

López's murder occurred the same week as the death of another young Mexican woman, Lidia Gabriela, shocked and caused outrage, after she threw herself out of a moving taxi that did not allow her to get off when she unexpectedly changed the route.

Relatives of López and Lidia Gabriela have called for demonstrations in the Mexican capital to demand justice and it was expected that this Monday they would gather again outside the offices of the Prosecutor's Office.

Femicides have been on the rise in recent years in Mexico, growing from 946 in 2020 to 978 in 2021. As of September, 695 cases had accumulated, according to the Security Secretariat.