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Parents of a Colombian inmate murdered last September at the Penitentiary have not been able to remove remains from the country for weeks

They try to collect money to pay for values ​​that must be paid for the cremation process prior to the transfer of remains

They have been waiting for two and a half months to dismiss their 32-year-old son Michael, one of the 122 victims of the massacre at the Penitentiary that occurred last September. Lucero Ramírez and Henry Granada, parents of the young Colombian, have taken a Stations of the Cross in Guayaquil during the search, identification and transfer process to Colombia to say goodbye.

Both are filled with strength in the midst of pain to relate part of their experiences in national territory. Lucero says she feels overwhelmed by the days spent in the country in each of the stages accomplished by locating and carrying out a series of procedures to take away Michael’s remains.

Currently, the national prison system coexists with an extension of the state of emergency since November 29, for 30 more days, to try to appease the crisis in the prison complexes, including the Penitentiary, which registered another massacre last November that left 65 dead.

Now, the Colombian couple, Lucero and Henry, hope to carry out the cremation of their son’s remains in Quito and later carry out the transfer by air in a suitcase to their country, with the support of the Colombian consulate, which will provide about half of ($ 350) of the expenses for the cremation of the corpse.

The rest of the money for this work is pending pending a response from a local entity. They still have $ 450 short of the total cost of $ 800.

Before participating in a march for the defense of human rights, last Friday, Lucero recounted that on September 28 her anguished son told her about the blood scene that was lived inside the prison.

“Mom, mom, mother, pray a lot for me, that this is very ugly, there is a lot of danger around here they have already killed about 30,” were his last words around 10:30 p.m.

After the clashes at that time, she and her husband left Pereira, Colombia to arrive in the country on October 1 and begin the search for their son. Since then, their pilgrimage began between the morgue, Penitentiary and judicial units of Guayaquil, says Michael’s mother, who had been deprived of liberty for two years.

Upon their arrival in the country, they attended the morgue and penitentiary where initially they were only told that Michael was listed as missing.

In later days, on another visit to the prison, in the company of a well-known human rights defender, her husband experienced a fatal episode. Site staff told them that their son was in the prison. That day he came out happy and calm, however, the next day the version was different.

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They told (the husband) that Mr. Michael G. was in ward 5, wing 1, and he came out happy and called us that my son is fine and left crying with happiness. When the next day we returned with the human rights man to request an interview with him, in some way, to have a proof of survival, like what comes out for him (a prison worker) with no, here it is on the list of deceased, go look for him in the morgue”, Says Lucero.

However, in the morgue his body was not among those identified and they had to resort to DNA tests that implied the delivery of results between 30 to 40 days later.

In the midst of despair, on another occasion, in mid-November, she returned to the Penitentiary and the delivery of bad information happened again. He inquired about his son and was told that he was in the designated ward. However, as he had not communicated since the day of the massacre, she had doubts and insisted again that same day, since he used to communicate frequently with the family. After their requests, those in charge of the attention retracted when they found in the area. Michael was not.

The same thing that they did to my husband they did to me, how are they going to play with people’s feelings, lack of humanity, I had the illusion that I was”Laments the mother.

While they were still waiting for the results of the genetic matching, the mother continued to search hospitals and judicial units, such as the Merced Prosecutor’s Office, hoping that he would appear recovering in a hospital.

Today, after receiving the results of the genetic analysis and spending two months in a disappeared condition, the parents already know that their son is one of the fatal victims of the massacre three months ago.

Although they are waiting for the transfer of the remains to Colombia, the parents still do not know how they will pay the funeral expenses in their country and also the emotional and psychological support that Henry considers they must follow to overcome this painful episode, which also leaves them indebted for the expenses incurred in Ecuador for two and a half months they have been looking for their son in Guayaquil, where they have been welcomed in a house of acquaintances.

Lucero indicates that they are analyzing filing a lawsuit against the Ecuadorian State, although the possibility is held back by the few economic limitations. “He was deprived of liberty, but he was not sentenced to death, that cannot go unpunished, the State has to answer to us for our son, no money is going to replace our son, ”he says.

Henry remembers that for two months they had requested that their son be transferred to the Tulcán or Quito jail, due to constant mistreatment that he claimed to receive in the Buenos Aires prison. He even considers that he was not entitled to a legitimate defense.

Michael, born in Risaralda (Pereira), had served two of the 29 years of his sentence for a sex crime.

On the 7th, the Permanent Committee for the Defense of Human Rights (CDH) disseminated the case of the parents to obtain the necessary help in the transfer of Michael’s remains to Colombia.

This week, the Police counted 119 corpses delivered and 3 identified to be delivered from the massacre of last September, while from the November riots that left 65 dead, there were still 7 corpses to be identified. (I)

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