The political and judicial controversy over the death of Ariadna Fernanda López Díaz, the 27-year-old whose body was found a week ago on a highway south of Mexico City, continues to worsen with new suspicions and criticism against the Morelos Prosecutor's Office for rule initially that it was not a femicide, and details about who the alleged murderer is and how he could have acted.
The Morelos Prosecutor's Office indicated on Friday that the young woman died of a bronchoaspiration supposedly caused by excessive alcohol consumption.
The prosecutor, Uriel Carmona, forcefully ruled out "a femicide", but the Mexico City Prosecutor's Office carried out another autopsy at the request of the family and determined on Sunday that she died "it was a multiple trauma" of a criminal nature.
This Monday, the head of government of the capital, Claudia Sheinbaum, accused the Morelos prosecutor of trying to cover up the alleged murderer, a businessman identified as Routel who turned himself in to the authorities on Monday.
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The president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, questioned this Tuesday "the haste" with which the Morelo prosecutor ruled out femicide.
Carmona has denied for his part the accusations of cover-up.
López Obrador asked that “it be clarified why, if there was an autopsy [in Morelos], it was pointing out that the cause of death was another [alcohol] and that there were no blows [as the second autopsy showed].
"There are interests of political groups there in the case of Morelos and everywhere," he added, "they have no principles, the people do not matter, it is the struggle of power for power, they are ambitious vulgar."
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This Tuesday, accompanied by his lawyers and before several media outlets, Rautel denied being involved in the death of the young woman.
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However, the newspaper El Universal reports, citing agents from the capital's Prosecutor's Office, that the suspect called the staff of the Morelos Prosecutor's Office several times.
The agents have a record that he spoke for about 10 minutes with personnel from the Morelos Prosecutor's Office after the young woman's body was abandoned in the area where some cyclists found it.
Sheimbaum showed photographs and videos in which he assured that Router is seen carrying López's motionless body.
“She, already lifeless, is carried by the person who gives herself up today.
There identified, "she said.
According to the newspaper Milenio, the alleged femicide is an extroverted businessman with a wide social circle.
His partner, Vanessa, was arrested on Sunday for her alleged involvement in the crime.
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López's murder occurred the same week as the death of another young Mexican woman, Lidia Gabriela, who according to her brother jumped out of a taxi at high speed when the driver prevented her from getting off where she wanted and unexpectedly changed the route.
Relatives of the two young women have called for demonstrations in the Mexican capital to demand justice and gathered this Monday 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.
