If the episode of the traveling coffin had been presented to any of the great masters of the grotesque -theatrical genre that deforms reality to the point of making it grotesque-, none of them, beginning with its creator, the Spaniard Ramón del Valle Inclán, would have been encouraged to adopt it. as argument.
The details are chilling: the journey of the box with the remains of the criminal killed in the north to Asunción, its diversion to a women’s prison to be placed in a catafalque and watched over by the inmates headed by the sister of the deceased and final transfer on the shoulders of municipal employees to occupy a sepulchral niche where, in addition, he would not remain for long given the resistance of the Municipal Board and large groups of citizens. So far the theatrical phase of the theme. Now let’s see the sea in the background.
The interior minister admitted that it was a mistake to give in to threats from the convicted sister of the most wanted criminal in recent years. Mistake? That, more than an error, smacks of poor performance of duties due to ignorance or flagrant violation of the law by giving in to the blackmail of a mutinous inmate. The following maneuver is incredible. The previous step of the autopsy that was carried out in the Directorate of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences had already been completed.
It was then that the coffin began its horror movie itinerary. He was first taken to a funeral home and then directed to a vault in the Recoleta cemetery. At that point, the director of the women’s prison, accompanied by the lawyer of the family of the deceased, was present at the scene ordering her transfer to the Buen Pastor.
The speed with which the maneuver occurred indicates that the coffin was not guarded by any security element, being a character that could eventually raise some kind of reaction in the community, as it finally happened, with social networks set on fire before the treatment of privilege granted to a terrorist and his convicted sister serving 14 years in prison for attempted murder.
Everything shows a true institutional dissolution: an inert Ministry of Justice and a Ministry of the Interior that adduces nonsense. Everything achieved by the combined efforts of the National Police and the Armed Forces turned into a grotesque public spectacle.
It will cost to repair all that.
