Governor Alfaro washes his hands in the Luz Raquel case

Emir Olivares Alonso

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Newspaper La Jornada
Saturday July 23, 2022, p. 4

Puerto Vallarta, Jal., The Governor of Jalisco, Enrique Alfaro, ruled out that the local authorities had failed to prevent the femicide of Luz Raquel Padilla, who was burned alive last weekend in Zapopan, even though she had security measures in place. current protection.

By way of justification for this crime, he asserted that when someone intends to commit an act of this nature, there is no government strategy or protection that can prevent it.

We have an environment and a social circumstance that would force us all to reflect. We are talking about an act of brutal violence, not all the measures that the government may have at any level are sufficient when there is the determination to commit such a heinous act.said when questioned about this crime when participating in the morning conference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which was held yesterday at this tourist spot in the country in the context of a tour of the president through the Riviera Nayarita.

Despite the fact that the victim – the mother of a child with autism – reported to various state authorities that she was threatened with death by a neighbor (who claimed that she could not bear the child’s crises), on Saturday several people bathed her with alcohol and set her on fire. , which caused his death after three days hospitalized.

The governor asserted that the presence and accompaniment of the municipal police of Zapopan was permanent from the time the protection order was issued, which had been judicialized. The protection order is issued against a specific person, who is detained, but so far there is no certainty of his participation in the events. Until the investigation is exhausted and until a conclusion is reached, it seems to me that the information must be handled with care.

When asked if there was an omission, especially if, as he assured, Luz Raquel had protection, the local president cut short: It’s just that I come back to the same thing: we are talking about a brutal act that is going to be investigated and that we are going to punish those responsible. Of course, we are fully available (yesterday we met with federal authorities on the matter) to review and clarify any issue that has to do with action protocols. But I insist: the measures that had been taken are those that are also established by law and protocols. And of course we cannot minimize the facts, we condemn them.

-Doesn’t it have anything to do with the fact that someone from the government, from security, didn’t do their job well? –She turned around.

“Of course not,” he argued.

-But why didn’t you act? It is not that they came from her and killed her with a bullet and fled from her, they bathed her in alcohol and set her on fire, she took time.

“Well, I already answered the point,” he pointed out.

He added that the investigation must be exhausted, help the family and find those responsible, and of course reflect as a society, because it seems to me that it would be a mistaken conclusion simply to think that this is a problem of action by the authority: this is a problem that shows a brutal social decomposition and I think that it is also necessary to do an exercise of reflection in that sense.

With information from Georgina Saldierna