Benito Jimenez/Reform Agency
Tuesday, January 17, 2023 | 13:01
Mexico City.- The forensic opinion of the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) does not have a position of superiority in the effects of the forensic study in the case of Ariadna Fernanda López, stated the Attorney General of Morelos Uriel Carmona.
He added that it corresponds to an opinion and it will be the judge of the case who determines the validity of the forensic opinions.
The prosecutor indicated this after yesterday the FGR stated in a statement that the woman, found dead in a spot on the La Pera-Cuautla highway last October, died from blows to the head and not from breathalyzer, as the Prosecutor’s Office maintained. Morelos.
“The communiqué is no more than an opinion, the communiqué itself establishes and acknowledges it, in the legal part, this communiqué cannot deny a scientifically performed necropsy, that only has an effect in media terms, but does not legally bind the investigation that we are developing in Morelos regarding the crimes that could have been committed here in the matter of Ariadna and it does not bind the judge of the criminal case that hears the criminal process either,” Carmona told REFORMA.
“So in reality we see it as an opinion, of course we do not agree, but it is only up to the courts and the judges to decide which of the opinions should prevail, that is what we abide by, the result of the legal , and institutionally we continue to support the work of our forensic team, all of them women with experience and sufficient credentials to issue the necropsy that has been criticized so much,” he added.
For the Morelense prosecutor, it does not depend on a Prosecutor’s Office if an autopsy is valid or not.
“It is the responsibility of the expert who issues a forensic opinion and the assessment of its effectiveness corresponds solely to the judges. The FGR does not have a position of superiority nor do we of subordination and this opinion that it issued is not being given within a legally established procedure .
“This is not a folder. We are going to be respectful, however, we are waiting for the legal part. We also know that the Head of Government (Claudia Sheinbaum) has issued her opinions, which we respect, we know of the great pressure that has to govern a city like that, but we are outside the field of politics and we are going to stay here,” he said.
He indicated that the FGR statement causes confusion in the victim’s family and reproached that so far the Morelos Prosecutor’s Office does not know the forensic opinion of the CDMX Prosecutor’s Office or the FGR.
“I think that the statement is not the most fortunate, especially for the victims, this type of opinion is the victims that can confuse and we have the responsibility to seek the truth, the autopsy, we estimate that it was carried out correctly In application of a protocol with a gender perspective for the investigation of femicide and that will have to be scientifically supported, that opinion (from Morelos) stands on its own,” she insisted.
“We respect that opinion of the FGR but it is outside the criminal process. There is a criminal process in Mexico City in a common court and it is the criminal judge who must say which necropsy is the one that will have effects and that is what we We’re going to stick with it,” he said.
In this sense, he ruled out that a blow to the woman’s head had led to her death.
“I carefully reviewed that autopsy and in the technical-scientific opinion of the experts, an injury to the cephalic extremity was established, however, it was not the cause of death.
“This injury, according to our opinion, was not the cause of death but rather severe alcoholic intoxication and consequent bronchial aspiration,” he stated.
