The Attorney General's Office endorses Mexico City's version of the murder of Ariadna Fernanda López

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The Attorney General's Office of Mexico (FGR) reported this Monday, in a statement, that the young Ariadna Fernanda López died of a head injury, thoracic trauma and multiple trauma, which represents a different version from the one that the Morelos Prosecutor's Office presented two months ago, when it established a secondary bronchial aspiration due to alcohol poisoning as the cause of death.

With the result of her autopsy, the FGR validated the version of the Mexico City Attorney General's Office, which raised the hypothesis of homicide and began an investigation under the femicide protocol.

• Prosecutors of Mexico City and Morelos differ in the autopsy results of the young Ariadna Fernanda López

The death of López has confronted the prosecutors of the state of Morelos and Mexico City for the causes of the death of this 27-year-old girl, whose body was found by cyclists on October 31 on a highway in the neighboring municipality of Tepoztlán. from the Mexican capital.

The FGR intervened in the case after the Mexico City Attorney General's Office asked it to settle the discrepancies between the divergent conclusions of the two autopsies.

When presenting the result of a new autopsy, the FGR maintained that, according to its analysis, the injuries that caused López's death were caused by discharges from a blunt object on his head or by contact of the cranial surface against a plane Lasted.

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The FGR rejected the version of death by bronchial aspiration released by the Morelos Prosecutor's Office, stating that "it is not possible to support it, due to the external and internal injuries already mentioned, and the fact that it was not taken into account , in all its magnitude, the chronology of the moment of death".

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For its part, the Morelos Prosecutor's Office responded on Tuesday with a statement in which it defended the results of its investigation and the autopsy carried out by its experts.

According to this unit, the work of the FGR contains "a respectable opinion" that "is not legally binding for the investigation that is still open in Morelos or for the femicide judicial process that is taking place in Mexico City."

The Morelos Prosecutor's Office emphasizes that "only the jurisdictional authorities, judges and magistrates, have the power to determine which of the two forensic results should prevail, and this within the criminal process that is being followed for the crime of femicide in Mexico City." .

It should be remembered that López's lifeless body appeared on the La Pera-Cuautla highway section, in the state of Morelos, where a group of cyclists found it.

The state prosecutor's office opened the investigation and performed a first autopsy.

Based on the investigations and images from video surveillance cameras, the Mexico City Prosecutor's Office reconstructed the last hours of the young woman's life, which included her stay in a restaurant in the capital.

That night, October 30, she left the restaurant and together with a group of people went to an apartment in the Roma neighborhood, in Mexico City, the entity where she was last seen alive.

The government of Mexico City began its own investigation and determined that there are elements to assume that the result of the autopsy carried out by the state of Morelos is not sustained, for which reason it carried out a second investigation based on the femicide protocol.

Shortly after, the Mexico City Prosecutor's Office obtained a video recorded inside the building, which showed a man carrying the body of an apparently lifeless woman.

In the images, he is seen putting the body in a vehicle to leave the building, which strengthens the murder hypothesis.

Based on that video, authorities in the capital arrested two suspected suspects.

On November 9, the Mexico City Attorney General's Office asked the Attorney General of the Republic to initiate the investigation and decide between the two versions.

The FGR concluded on Monday that "the criminal proceedings for the possible crime of femicide should continue to be carried out by the local authorities of Mexico City, as it is a crime of common law committed in the jurisdiction of Mexico City itself."

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