On the afternoon of Wednesday, March 27, the little Camila Gómez Ortega, 8 years old, disappeared around 3 in the afternoon in the La Florida neighborhood, in the municipal capital of Taxco, Guerrero. Early this Thursday, March 28, his body was located on the Taxco-Cuernavaca highway.
Family, friends and neighbors blocked Los Plateros Avenue to demand justice for the little girl.
During the protests, the protesters entered the home of the alleged culprits and tried to lynch three people: two men and a woman.
Camila only went out to play
Family and friends pointed out that the little girlHe went to play at a neighbor's house around 1 in the afternoon.
At 4 in the afternoon, the mother called the neighbor to ask about her, however, the woman informed her that Camila had not come to her house.
Kidnappers demand ransom
Minutes later, Camila's mother began to receive calls from unknown numbers, asking for 250,000 Mexican pesos (about 58 million Colombian pesos) for the girl's release.
At that time, another neighbor showed the mother a video showing that the girl did arrive at the home where she had been invited to play.
Camila's body was transported in a taxi
A video circulates on social networks where the neighbor is seen taking a can of dirty clothes out of her house and is helped by a man, who is carrying a black bag.
They both throw the things into the trunk of a taxi and then leave the scene.
Relatives of the little girl indicated that her body could have been carried in the black bag.
Due to the above, relatives went to Iguala to file a complaint with the Public Ministry Agency, after which the taxi driver was arrested, who revealed the place where they left Camila.
The people identified as responsible were lynched
Camila's mother and other relatives went to present the complaint to the Public Ministry agency in Taxco, but they did not take it and they went to Iguala, to the anti-kidnapping Prosecutor's Office of the State Attorney General's Office (FGE).
In Taxco the alert was extended due to Camila's disappearance.
Dozens of people began to arrive on Los Plateros Avenue in support, blocking the road and demanding Camila's release.
The blockade continued. At 4 in the morning on Thursday, the girl's mother received another call: she had to go to the MP to identify a body that had been found on the Taxco-Cuernavaca highway. It was Camila.
Since then, Camila's mother demanded that the MP arrest the family her daughter was with for the last time. The authorities promised him that they would request an arrest warrant from a judge.
It was 10:30 in the morning and no authority came to take a statement from the accused family, much less to arrest them. On the avenue, the anger was increasing. The idea of removing the suspects began to arise.
A group went up and ran into ten state police officers. They blocked their way. They pushed each other, they yelled at each other. The police asked for calm, that the arrest warrant was almost coming.
One of the agents took his cell phone, dialed and spoke—or pretended to speak—with a prosecutor.
“Prosecutor, hurry up, people here are very angry,” he said.
Calm was the least thing they had. They had anger, fury.
In the end, they agreed that if the arrest warrant did not arrive within half an hour, they would enter by force.
The half hour ended, the arrest warrant did not arrive. Camila's family tried to calm things down.
“Camila's mother tells me to calm down, a statement is missing and the arrest warrant is issued,” said a woman who introduced herself as a friend of the family.
The half hour dragged on. The fury was contained.
“They are asking me to put together a group so that those from the prosecution can talk to them and calm down,” Camila's mother told a group of relatives. Another relative told them: “A friend told me that in the Prosecutor's Office they are afraid that, if they take them out, people are going to grab them and lynch them.”
The Prosecutor's Office group did not speak with the protesters, nor did they remove the family accused of Camila's kidnapping and murder.
The wait is over. The arrest warrant did not arrive.
It was 12:40 in the afternoon, a mob climbed the dozens of stairs in Florida Alley, they clashed with the 20 state police officers who were guarding the home where Camila was last. Men and women tore down the wall that the agents set up. They removed the first ones and the rest removed themselves.
Nothing prevented the mob from arriving at the house. They took bars, rods, crowbars, stones and they all headed towards the house. A group started with the door, with a bar they beat it incessantly. At the same time, another group climbed onto the roof and took off the sheets.
The scream was dry fuel for the bonfire, a kind of war cry. Then they headed again with a log towards the door with more force. Once, two, three… dozens of times until they knocked down the top.
A woman, two young men and a teenager appeared in the dark room. Everyone loved the woman. To which she appeared in the video. The one who told Camila's mother that the girl never arrived at her house.
The mob tried to enter, those inside sought to defend themselves. In the end they knocked down the bottom part of the door. The mob entered the house. He hit everyone, but they focused on the woman and the two men, presumably her children.
They took them out, beat them, dragged them down the stairs until they went down to Los Plateros Avenue. Everything turned into brutality. They had no mercy. Some hit them with closed fists, others with kicks, with their knees, with their elbows. With sticks, with tubes, with stones. The police and military just watched.
All three had their faces disfigured, blood was pouring from their noses, foreheads, and mouths.
After a respite, the two young people were rescued by police and soldiers, they took them out of the mob. They put her wife on a Municipal Police patrol car, but the beatings did not stop.
The patrol wanted to advance, but immediately, a group moved a vehicle and crossed it, blocking its path. The beating continued until Camila's hearse arrived.
“Now, the float is coming with Camila, out of respect, let's calm down,” said one of the people present.
An hour later, the woman who was accused of having kidnapped and murdered Camila died as a result of beatings. They identified her as Ana Rosa Díaz Aguilar.
Almost at the same time, the government of Guerrero reported that it organized an operation to achieve “the location and securing of those allegedly responsible.” Everyone knew where they were and no authority tried to stop them, they “secured” them until they were lynched.
The mayor, Mario Figueroa Mundo, considered Camila's murder a “small” act of violence.
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