The alleged femicide who buried his partner in his home was linked to the process in Milpa Alta. (dark room)

According to the statement issued by the Attorney General of Justice of Mexico City, Ernestina Godoy Ramosbetween Sunday January 22 and Friday February 10, 2023, within the framework of the Declaration on Gender Violence issued by the Head of Government, Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, it was possible to obtain various results.

In total, they executed 48 arrest warrants and made 55 arrests in flagrante delicto, making it possible to prosecute 103 people charged with various crimes against womenteenagers and girls.

50 people were charged with domestic violence; 32 for sexual abuse; 10 for grated; six for attempted femicide; two for femicide and the same number for crime against sexual intimacy; as well as a person for sexual harassment.

The prosecutor also highlighted some cases that have been handled by the General Coordination for the Investigation of Gender Crimes and Attention to Victims. Among which stands out the link with the process of a man identified as Michael “N”for his probable participation in the crime of femicide to the detriment of his sentimental couple.

Authorities have ordered the preventive detention of Miguel "NOT" for the crime of femicide.  (FGJ)
Authorities have ordered the preventive detention of Miguel “N” for the crime of femicide. (FGJ)

For its part, the judicial authority set four months for the additional investigation and imposed on Miguel “N” the precautionary measure of preventive prison unofficial

According to the investigation of the special prosecutor in charge of the investigation of the crime of femicide, between September 20 and 28 of last year, the victim was held incommunicado by Miguel “N”, his of a concubineat the address where the two lived in the neighborhood of San Jerónimo Miacatlán, in the Town hall of Milpa Alta.

It was during this time that this man may have physically assaulted her to the point of killing her, he wanted to hide it, so he chose to bury the body on the same property where they lived. Finally, the the remains of the victim were found underground on November 17.

According to the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP), in the 12 months of 2022 they added 3 thousand 754 deaths of women, of which only 947 (i.e. 33.7%) were investigated as femicides – which are treated as “presumed” in the absence of resolution -, while the others are considered by homicide.

The SESNSP national trend count shows that 2 thousand 807 women died by intentional homicide in 2022, which positions said year as the second with the most victims of this crime after 2019, which closed with 2,875.

The municipalities with the highest number of crimes are Iztapalapa with ten cases, Cuauhtémoc with seven, and Álvaro Obregón, Gustavo A. Madero and Tlalpan with six each.  PHOTO: GABRIELA PÉREZ MONTIEL / CUARTOSCURO.COM
The municipalities with the highest number of crimes are Iztapalapa with ten cases, Cuauhtémoc with seven, and Álvaro Obregón, Gustavo A. Madero and Tlalpan with six each. PHOTO: GABRIELA PÉREZ MONTIEL / CUARTOSCURO.COM

Regarding the breakdown of cases by federal entity, the agency found that Guanajuato was the one that reported the most intentional homicides of women with 413, followed by Baja California (276), State of Mexico (269) and Michoacán (232). Importantly, these four states were also, and in the same order, among the six most violent in Mexico according to the Ministry of Public Security and Protection (SSPC).

Regarding the demarcations in Mexico City, the mayors with a larger number crimes is iztapalapa with ten cases, cuauhtemoc with seven, and Alvaro Obregon, Gustavo A. Madero there tlalpan with six each. That is to say that only these five mayors accumulate 61.4% of the total cases.

Ten other demarcations concentrate the rest of the crimes: Xochimilco with five; Iztacalco, Miguel Hidalgo and Tláhuac, with three; Azcapotzalco and Venustiano Carranza, with two; Benito Juárez, Coyoacán, Magdalena Contreras and Milpa Alta, with a. There The only town hall to have recorded no feminicide in the current year is Cuajimalpa.

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