Tegucigalpa (EFE) they know nothing of the relatives they are looking for.
“I lost my sisters (two) and my wife, who died riddled with bullets, it is not known if the police killed her, it is most likely that they were police officers and also people who are incarcerated there,” Ángel Antonio García told EFE , while waiting in front of Forensic Medicine, of the Public Ministry, for his three relatives to be handed over.
She added that her two sisters, Miriam and Fanny García, were to be released on July 1 from the Center for the Social Adaptation of Women (Cefas), near Tegucigalpa, where they had been held for five years and the crime occurred, in which 46 women died, according to official information.
His wife, Claudia Vaquedano, had been in prison for a year and was one year and three months away from being released, García said. He also stressed that corruption in Honduras also prevails in prisons. The entry of firearms, knives, stones and other blunt objects is allowed.
Relatives of the victims call for justice
The Public Ministry spokesman, Yuri Mora, told EFE that of the 46 women who died in Cefas, 23 were due to firearms and blades. While the other 23 due to burns in the fire that broke out during a brawl, apparently between members of two enemy gangs.
“I’m looking for my daughter’s body, dead or alive,” Lourdes Ardon told EFE. She arrived early, crying and desperate for Forensic Medicine in search of information about her daughter Kimberly Izamar Ardón.
He added that until 10:00 local time today (16:00 GMT) they had not given him any information about his daughter. The one she is looking for because on Tuesday she heard that among the victims was one “who they only said was called Kimberly”, for which he presumes that she may be her daughter.
“What I want is to realize it. If she’s dead, well, there’s no way, let them hand her over to me,” said the grieving woman, who lives in the Nueva Suyapa neighborhood of the Honduran capital.
Ardón demanded that the government headed by Xiomara Castro “be done justice, because it was not dogs that killed, but human beings.”
“Although they were deprived of liberty, they did not have to die like this, burned, killed, even with stones. We are many family members who are suffering now. What I demand is justice, that this be fixed, that there be no corruption from those same rogue policemen ”, in prison, he stressed.
The number of women killed rises to 46
Another woman, who only identified herself as Belkis, told EFE that she came to Forensic Medicine to seek information about a sister-in-law and a niece, who she does not know if they are dead or alive.
“We don’t know anything about them, we are desperate, their daughters are suffering because we haven’t heard from them since yesterday. They were confined in Module 1 ”, of Cefas, he added.
He identified the relatives he is looking for as Maribel Breve, 48, and her daughter Karla Breve, 33.
So far, Forensic Medicine has identified 23 women, who are the ones who died from shots with firearms and wounds with bladed weapons.
Several of the bodies have already been handed over to their relatives, while ten of them were pending to be claimed, according to the Public Ministry spokesman.
Yuri Mora also said that the most difficult work, that of identifying the burned victims, has begun and that it will take a long time because DNA or denture tests have to be done, among others, for which they must have the support of their families.
Until now, it is not known how long it will take to identify the women burned in the worst tragedy that occurred in a women’s prison in Honduras.
They recommend asking Nayib Bukele for help
The prisons in Honduras, some 25, that make up the Penitentiary System, are true death traps and the most important, according to official sources, are controlled by gangs, known as “maras.”
Lawyer and analyst Juan Carlos Barrientos recommended that the Castro government “ask the President of El Salvador”, Nayib Bukele, for help. Who “can send him a couple of advisors on how to control the gangs and prisons,” as he has done in his country.
In the same sense, various sectors have been speaking out as a result of multiple violent acts that have occurred in the last two years in Honduran prisons, some called “maximum security”, although there are also those who oppose extreme measures such as adopted by Bukele.