SLP Prosecutor's Office denied audio about alleged “hunting women”

In view of the constant complaints by citizens of San Luis Potosí over an alleged audio warning about the “hunting of women” in the entity, the Attorney General's Office denied the versions and granted some recommendations to the inhabitants.

In a statement, the state justice agency said that this material was shared by the instant messaging application WhatsApp along with another that indicates a possible “curfew” in the entity.

In one of the audios, an alleged “attorney's office worker”, without saying which demarcation she belongs to. He goes on to say that he has information about various “armed commandos” that have the mission of taking men and women because, the recording notes, they are paying money for all of them.

The Potosina authority recalled that this material had already been in circulation during 2020. At that time they also denied it, stating that there was no sustenance or truthfulness in the woman's statements.

“The FGESLP makes a careful appeal to citizens not to fall into this type of publication that only seeks to generate uncertainty and unrest, so it is requested not to share so as not to contribute to circulating news that is totally false,” the official statement reads.

This audio began to go viral just as San Luis Potosí is experiencing one of its worst crises of violence against women. In March alone, the FGESLP issued more than two dozen search cards.

According to figures collected from the Twitter profile of the state agency, between March 1 and 31, 64 files were disseminated to search for people who could not be located. Of the total, 28 are women who have even been reported as under 18 years of age. The situation became more alarming in the middle of the month, when cases increased considerably.

For its part, the criminal incidence report of the common jurisdiction carried out by the Executive Secretariat of the National Security System (SESNS), updated until February 2022, only two kidnappings were reported, to give a total of three so far this year.

Although, in this category, there is a category called “Other crimes that violate personal freedom”, of which 39 were recorded in January and another 52 in February, to give a total of 91 in the first two months of the year.

Two cases have attracted the most attention in recent weeks. The first was that of Brenda González Ibarra. A video was released from a security camera located inside a home, which captured the moment in which it is observed how a subject dressed in black threatened the victim with a firearm and “lifted” her in a car.

While the disappearance of 25-year-old Nayeli Alfaro Silva also caused a stir when her body was found “in the vicinity of the community of Santa Rita, on a rustic property where it was processed,” authorities reported.

When questioned about this case, Miguel Gallegos, spokesman for the State Security System of San Luis Potosí, was questioned about the inconsistencies surrounding the case and denied that the situation should generate alarm among the population, despite the considerable increase in the number of missing and unlocated persons, as well as the modus operandi of the perpetrators who have even been caught on security cameras.

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