They found the corpse of a girl floating in a sewer line in Ixtapaluca

The family asks the attorney general of the State of Mexico to consider the crime as a feminicide (Photo: special)

Authorities of the State of Mexico have found in a wastewater channel of Ixtapaluca the body of Maria de Lourdes Martínez Sánchez, 24 years old and single mother of four children.

The girl was missing last Tuesday, when he left his home, located in the antorchist district, to get to work.

On Thursday, February 7, around 2 pm, employees of the decentralized public organization for the provision of sanitation and sanitation services for the municipality of La Paz (O.P.D.A.P.A.S) They found the woman's body inside the Compañía Cbad, parallel to the free highway leading to Puebla.

The tattoos that the victim was wearing on his body and the clothes he was wearing at the time of his disappearance -Pants and blouse navy blue- They helped identify the woman. After attending the recognition, her family confirmed that it was María de Lourdes Martínez.

"We went to get the body, we said that he had been autopsied and everything else, but they do not take it as a femicide, I will not leave it as the prosecutor's office reports. They take it now that she died of asphyxiation, falling headlong into the black water " denounced the victim's sister, Diana Martínez, in an interview with the local newspaper The sun of Toluca.

The relatives of the victim urge the Attorney General of the State of Mexico (FGJEM) to clbadify the death as a feminicide. In the statements that Diana Martinez gave to the local media, she explained that the authorities had not found the sister's cell phone, nor the backpack and wallet in which she had kept the money .

They suspect that the crime was allegedly committed by a taxi driver, they said, he always took this transport to go to his work as a waitress at a restaurant in Reyes La Paz.

Between September 16, 2017 and October 5, 2018, At least 399 women were killed in the state of Mexicoon average 28 victims per month.

According to official data from the Office of the Attorney General of Mexico (FGJEM), out of the total number of deaths, 47 women were registered "with an unknown identity", while 352 were identified.

The National Citizen Observatory of Feminicide explains that for a crime to be considered a feminicide, it must be a "murder committed by men who kill victims because they are women. Feminicides are misogyny-motivated killings, because they involve contempt and hatred towards women ".

In the State of Mexico, 11 municipalities are declared to be alert to gender-based violence: Cuautitlán Izcalli, Chalco, Chimalhuacán, Ecatepec, Ixtapaluca, Naucalpan, Nezahualcóyotl, Tlalnepantla, Toluca, Tucalitán and Valle de Chalco. However, Karina Labastida Sotelo, a local MP, explained that the figures show that crimes against women extend beyond these territories.

In addition to areas where the gender alert has been activated, There are 55 municipalities in the state that are clbadified as hot spots.