Until the afternoon of this Tuesday 16, 46 bodies of prisoners had been identified; 34 were removed by family members.
Four days after the massacre that took place in the Litoral Penitentiary, relatives of murdered inmates continue with procedures to comply with the recognition of corpses, while others return to finalize the delivery of documents that allow them to bury the remains.
Installed in tents, the relatives wait for their turn and then continue to a room where they offer details that they can contribute in the identification process, such as physical characteristics of the inmate, images or details about tattoos that facilitate the recognition stage, since in several In some cases the bodies have been cremated or mutilated.
Until the afternoon of this Tuesday 16, the National Police already counted 46 corpses fully identified by their relatives; of those, 34 had already been delivered.
A day before, 34 were recognized and in addition there were 7 anatomical pieces that were subjected to anthropological analyzes to analyze their compatibility with dismembered bodies.
Colonel Marco Ortiz, director of Technical Scientific Investigation of the Police, indicated that it was expected to continue with the investigations to obtain the recognition of a group of 16 remaining bodies that were still in the morgue of the Judicial Police.
In a next phase, in case of problems for the recognition of corpses due to the condition in which they arrived at the morgue, the experts would apply genetic techniques with the profiling of the bodies and possible relatives. Then both samples would be profiled, which would take more time.
In the following days, the Police expects to increase the number of bodies delivered with anthropology and fingerprint processes, it was indicated.
So far, the list of deceased inmates has not yet been released. The Government indicated that it hopes to complete the collation of the information of all the victims for the dissemination of the information. Despite this, several relatives and lawyers have revealed the identity of the victims; Among those, Abraham Muñoz, who was convicted in the case of illegal sale of Actemra.
Among those gathered at the morgue was Christian Rodríguez, a relative of an inmate, who was hoping to obtain information about a person who was being held in prison.
This Tuesday 16, several relatives of inmates of the Penitentiary still did not know information about their relatives. Others sought to bring them food.
Among them, María Rosado wanted to advance in the pre-release process for two acquaintances who are incarcerated for a drug case that occurred in La Libertad in 2019. One of those inmates has lung problems, so she hoped to complete the pre-release process as he is close to completing his sentence in January.
Petrona Buñay was looking for news about two relatives, her son and her son-in-law, who entered that prison after being accused of a robbery and have already served 60% of the sentence. She expected facilities for the same procedure, since both worked in a market and were an important part of the income of this family with limited economic resources.
Last July, the Government announced that some 2,000 pardons would be processed for the elderly, disabled or with catastrophic illnesses. (I)
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