A group of young people had agreed to go out dancing one August night at a bowling alley in the historic neighborhood of Montevideo. One of them had little desire and his mother encouraged him to stay at home. But finally everyone left in a car that was driven by the leader of the group. The Chineppesa criminal gang from the Cerro neighborhood of the capital of Uruguay.
They had to pick up another friend, but when they got home, He asked them to wait a few minutes. It was during that wait that another group of people approached on foot and began shooting at the vehicle. The driver was hit by bulletswho wounded him in the hip, back and leg. The other three members, who were in the back seat, died inside the vehicle and were set on fire by the criminals.
A few days after the triple crime was the wake of the three young people. The mother of one of them asked to see her son’s body, although she knew it would be unrecognizable.. “It doesn’t matter, I am his mother,” the woman responded to the warning they gave her, according to what he told the Telenoche news program on Channel 4.
“I look at the face and it was unrecognizable. The ears were cooked, not burned; The little arms were curled up, but they were very short. “I touched him and (I realized that) he was not my son.”he commented. The legs of the body were too short and the young man had only one chain and not two gold ones, as appropriate. “Besides, my son had a scar on his tongue and this child had his tongue up and it was healthy. The teeth weren’t his either,” the woman continued.
In the next wake room they were watching over Ignacio, another of those who died on Saturday night. The family asked to open the drawer, but it was not possible. Given the claim of the relatives, it was decided to exhume the other bodies to do a DNA test.
Now this error reaches Justice. The relatives of two of the three young people murdered and burned will sue the State for receiving the wrong bodies of the victims of the triple homicide for burialAccording to the families’ lawyer, Gumer Pereza The Observer.
According to the story of Pérezwhen the families went to remove the remains from the morgue, those responsible for the Forensic Technical Institute (ITF) advised him not to see the bodies to recognize them, since their charred state could give them a bad impression. In principle, the families accepted.
One of the young people was veiled and buried in the North Cemetery of Montevideo, another in the Cerro neighborhood and the third was cremated.
One of the young men regretted the initial decision and asked to recognize his son. When they opened the drawer, he saw that the body was wearing a chain, which he did not recognize, and that it was of a different height. “This is not my son.”was the woman’s reaction, according to the lawyer’s story.
The families’ lawyers requested the exhumation of the three bodies from the homicide prosecutor Adriana Edelman and, after DNA analysis, It was confirmed that they had received the crossed bodies.
The lawsuit is for damages to the Judiciary, for the actions of the ITF, and to the Ministry of the Interior, for the task carried out by the Scientific Police at the crime scene. There was, according to the defender, “moral damage” to the families, who had to “watch over” and “grieve” the victims twice. “It is clear that both are responsible for an inexcusable error, they delivered the wrong bodies” and then blame was passed on, the lawyer questioned.
