Missing people listed by the federal government in its census will not be removed from the National Register of Missing and Displaced Persons (RNPDNO), but will be registered as “located,” the Minister of the Interior, Luisa María Alcalde, explained.
“Even if we have already found the person, we will not remove him from the register. It will still be found in the database, but it will be presented as found,” he explained on Wednesday during President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s daily press conference.
The location is recorded in the databases, but he clarified that this does not “mean exclusion from the register”.
“No data on missing persons has been erased and will not happen,” he reiterated.
The Secretary reiterated the results of the census presented in early December, which stated that 15% of registered people had been located, and considered that only just over 12,000 documents confirmed the disappearances.
According to the mayor, of the 16,681 people the census claims to have traced, 3,945 were found in their homes, 4,135 in obituaries, 8,405 in a local government report and 197 in correctional facilities.
Of the more than 17 thousand people considered localized (that is, without evidence of life), according to the census, 14 thousand 743 have signs of life in databases, while 3 thousand in 100 have this information provided by telephone.
For the 16,000 records that did not contain sufficient data to identify the individual, Alcalde stated that one or more of the following data were not included: name, date of birth, place of birth, nationality, gender, age, CURP or identifiers.
In the 36 thousand records that are considered identified, but do not contain clues to the search, there is again CURP, but there are no registered telephone numbers or addresses.
Finally, he assured the 12,377 that these were confirmed complaints. The mayor believed that this number “information had been manipulated” and argued that these were confirmed complaints.
Finally, the secretary explains that it is possible to call Locatel to check whether someone’s missing report has been included in the national register. The complaint can also be confirmed in this way.
On December 14, the federal government presented the results of the census ordered by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which concluded that there were just over 12,000 confirmed disappearances, compared to the more than 110,000 reported by the RNPDNO.
In addition, it ensured that 16,681 people reported missing were located.
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There are also “important clues as to the whereabouts” of 17,843 people, the minister said. A total of 34,524 people are considered located or traced in the census, representing 31% of the total number of missing persons reports currently available.
In addition, 26,090 RNPDNO records were considered to have insufficient data to identify the individual (24%) and 36,000 records had an identity but no clues to conduct searches (32%).
These findings were questioned by organizations and families of the missing, who found it concerning that the federal government had only confirmed the disappearance of 12,000 people.
Source: La Neta Neta
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