GUADALAJARA.- Approximately 800 bodies of unidentified people who remain in custody in the Jalisco Institute of Forensic Sciences (IJCF) will be buried in municipal cemeteries.
The bodies are being prepared for burial or burial, work carried out in coordination with the Jalisco State Prosecutor’s Office.
He IJCF He noted that the process will be carried out under forensic protocols, institutional support and citizen accompaniment to guarantee respect for human rights as well as the possibility of restitution in the event of subsequent identification.
According to reports, the bodies will be buried in cemeteries of Guadalajara, mosque y The Jumpin duly identified spaces.
“The burial process will be carried out with well-defined traceability, which will allow the return of the body if a family member appears at a later time.“said the head of the IJCF.
Unidentified 800 bodies in Jalisco
Axel Rivera Martínezhead of the IJCF, reported that a basic file of each identification of each unclaimed body is being integrated, which is one of the essential requirements to be able to proceed with the burial.
“All the elements that make up the basic identification file are being integrated, in order to gather the greatest amount of information possible that allows the full identification of the bodies.”he explained.
This file contains genetic data, physiognomic, fingerprint, dental, anthropological, photographs, necropsy y criminalistic analysis.
When immediate identification of the body is not possible, all available information is retained to facilitate a future match.
Once the forensic file is concluded, the cases are presented to a working group with the state prosecutor’s office for review in the ministerial investigation.
In the event that no trace of identity or a family member of the deceased is found, the cases are taken to the court. Working Commission for the Monitoring and Observation of the Burial Process of Unclaimed Deceased Persons.
The commission is chaired by the Secretariat of Intelligence and Search for Persons of Jaliscowhose owner is the official Edna Montoya Sánchez.