Trailer With Corpses Found In Mexico

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

A huge scandal has been unleashed in Mexico after the discovery of an abandoned refrigerated trailer that contained at least 157 decomposing corpses and that 'walked' through the streets of a municipality in Guadalajara without anyone detecting it.

The macabre discovery was made last Thursday in the La Duraznera neighborhood, in the municipality of Tlaquepaque, in Jalisco. As confirmed by María Elena Limón, mayor of the municipality, neighbors began to report the fetid smell given off by the trailer, the photos of which were released by the National Human Rights Commission on its Twitter page.

Inside the vehicle, at least 157 rotting corpses were discovered, which were later discovered to have come from the Forensic Medical Service. Apparently, this agency cannot cope with the violence that plagues the region and has had to place the bodies not identified by the relatives in rented trailers.

"We have many children in this neighborhood … we could get sick," said José Luis Tovar, one of the residents of the area in statements reproduced by the BBC.

According to what was discovered, those responsible for the vehicle left the trailer in La Duraznera, but due to complaints from neighbors over the weekend they moved it to another empty lot in the nearby municipality of Tlajomulco where there were also complaints from neighbors.

The scandal reached the governor of Jalisco, Aristotle Sandoval, who fired the director of the Jalisciense Institute of Forensic Sciences (IJCF), Luis Octavio Cotero Bernal.

However, Cotero told Noticieros Televisa that in reality there is not one, but two trailers with unidentified bodies, which would add up to a total of 300 bodies.

The former official explained that to date there are at least 444 bodies waiting to be identified or buried in the entity's Forensic Medical Service.

For their part, the CNDH and other agencies have already expressed outrage at the treatment given to the bodies and are required to immediately identify them in order to hand them over to their families. "[The] mishandling of the corpses of people who have not yet been claimed represent a lack of respect for their dignity and dignity and that of their relatives, who have the right to know the truth about the death of their loved one, as well as to give them adequate burial ", he told himself through a tweet..