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The prosecution of the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas took the DNA of the 19 victims who were found incinerated last Saturday and he is already collaborating with Guatemalan authorities to identify them, Luis Felipe Rodríguez, spokesman for State Security, informed Efe on Monday.
“The shots have already been made and now we are in a series of consultations at the consulate level, precisely so that it can yield some result and, in due course, if any authority both in Guatemala and in Mexico has information that can clarify the identity, it will be integrated into the research folder ”, stated Rodríguez.
The spokesman mentioned that the victims are 16 men, one woman and two more whose sex has not been determined.
“From a precise, objective and legal point of view, the only thing that can prove the identity of these people it is the DNA and referenced or compared with that of a family member ”, he added.
He stressed that when that happens they will be able to be fully certain who that person was.
“Many names, identifications and origin of the victims have appeared in social networks, but what is scientifically valid is what DNA studies show,” Rodríguez added.
He stressed that the National Institute of Migration (INM) will also support in everything it can collaborate and that they hope that all the authorities, Mexican and Guatemalan, will join to clarify the identity of the victims soon.
“The most important issue now in this case is to identify the victims and if there are people who are making an indication about who he was, we hope they will contact the Tamaulipas prosecutor’s office to contribute to the investigations,” concluded Luis Felipe Rodríguez.
The Attorney General’s Office of Tamaulipas, a state bordering the United States, found 19 charred bodies in various vehicles in the Santa Anita town of the Camargo municipality last weekend.
“An investigation folder has already been opened for the crime of homicide, derived from the discovery of burned bodies and vehicles,” said an official statement.
Witnesses of the events consulted by Efe reported that the victims are of Central American origin, who were taken from a safe house by members of an organized crime group that operates in the region.
The testimonies collected indicate that on Friday afternoon a command of gunmen from the Northeast Cartel (CDN), the former Zetas, entered to search for a command from the rival group Gulf Cartel (CDG), the criminal organization that controls the area of Tamaulipas.
After a confrontation, The CDN hitmen searched the entire region for the commander and located 19 alleged Guatemalan citizens in a house in the town of Santa Anita, who were murdered in that place and then abandoned on the border with the neighboring state of Nuevo León.
The CDG and the CDN have been in a dispute for control of the northeastern states of Mexico since March 2010, a conflict that has caused more than 15,000 disappeared and thousands of deaths since that date.
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