The Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) said on Thursday, in a notice published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF), that at the end of May the first National Forensic Data Bank in Mexico, in the midst of the crisis of disappeared that exceeds 112,000 people.
The registry will be “interconnected” with various existing databases such as: the National Registry of Mass and Clandestine Graveshe Federal Coroner’s Recordthe National Genetic Information Basehe Fingerprint Identification Systemamong others, detailed FGR in the document.
The creation of National Forensic Data Bankwhich will begin its operations on May 29, has been a claim for many years for tens of thousands of people looking for their disappeared relatives and for organizations of human rights.
To date, in Mexico it has a record of 112,181 missing and missing persons. The vast majority of the cases were reported in violent regions of the country where criminal groups fight over routes for drug trafficking, kidnapping, and other crimes.
“Although it is good news, for the data bank with forensic information to work, all the states in the country must have their information digitized and this is not yet the case, there are thousands of cases on paper,” said Fernando Ocegueda, president of the association. United by the Disappeared, in the northern state of Baja California.
The creation of such a database had been required by law since 2017, but stalled until a judge ordered it renewed last October.
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