Ceci Floresfounder of Seeking Mothers of Sonorareported that on Tuesday afternoon she and a group of activists located a clandestine “crematorium” on the slope of the Xaltepec volcano, located in the vicinity of the municipalities Tlahuac and Iztapalapain Mexico City (CDMX).
Through your account xwho is also a human rights defender, reported that at the scene they found human remains in clandestine gravesas well as INE credentials belonging to women and “children’s notebooks”.
According to Ceci Flores, the search mothers undertook a two-day exploration after a Anonymous complaint will alert them to the existence of this site.
“We just found this clandestine crematorium. Apparently they have been cremating bodies here for a long time. (…) We are going to give notice to the authorities so that they can do the job that corresponds to them,” Flores announced in a video shared on his social networks.
“We hope that with the technology that the authorities have they can do something to locate what is left of some people, some remains that they can analyze and something positive can come out,” he added.
The activist assured that this is the first time that a search of this magnitude has been carried out in CDMX with positive results and invited the families of missing people in Mexico to join the fight. Likewise, he thanked the people who anonymously provided them with information to reach these places.
“Thank you to everyone who told me where there could be remains and I repeat, I am not looking for justice, just for a mother to know where to tuck her son in for the last time,” he said.
We found human remains in Mexico City, Searching mothers had asked me to come, and yes, we found a clandestine crematorium, and what hurts more, women’s INE credentials and children’s notebooks.
1/2— Ceci Flores 6623415616 (@CeciPatriciaF) April 30, 2024
FGR opens investigation folder for clandestine “crematorium” in CDMX
After the report made by Ceci Flores, the Attorney General’s Office of Mexico City (FGJ-CDMX) announced that it opened an investigation folder for the “possible discovery of human remains in an area located in the vicinity of the Iztapalapa and Tláhuac municipalities.”
He added that the Public Ministry of the Prosecutor’s Office Specialized in the Search, Location and Investigation of Missing Persons (FIPEDE) called in experts from the General Coordination of Forensic Investigation and Expert Services “to go to the place in search of evidence, awaiting the opinions that will determine further details.”
“Out of respect for families searching for their loved ones, we will report further details once the nature of the findings is confirmed.”he said in a statement.
In relation to a publication on social networks in which the possible discovery of human remains is indicated in a place located in the vicinity of the Iztapalapa and Tláhuac municipalities, the #FiscalíaCDMX He started an investigation file for criminal news.
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— CDMX Prosecutor’s Office (@FiscaliaCDMX) May 1, 2024
Who is Ceci Flores and what happened to her children?
Cecilia Patricia Flores Armentabetter known as Ceci Flores, is a seeking mother and activist originally from Los Mochis, Sinaloa.
Flores, 51, founded the collective in 2019 Seeking Mothers of Sonora in order to locate his son Alejandro Guadalupe Flores Islandswho was kidnapped by armed individuals in October 2015, when he was 21 years old.
In their attempts to find the young man, his other two children, Mark Antony32 and Jesus Adrian15 years old, were also kidnapped in Bahía del Kino on May 4, 2019. Jesús Adrián was released shortly after, but Marco Antonio is still missing.
In March of this year, Ceci Flores demonstrated outside the National Palace to demand greater commitment from President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) with the mothers and fathers of missing people. As part of her protest, she brought the shovel that she had used during her search to find the whereabouts of her children.
“I came to knock on the doors of the Palace, President López Obrador, to give you the shovel with which I am looking for my children. This shovel should never have been in my hands, nor should it have felt the bones breaking from the bodies it has unearthed. Take command President, take charge of the missing”, the activist published on her networks.
