Lawyers, parents and survivors of the fire of the ABC Nursery, where 49 babies died in Hermosilloin the northern Mexican state of Sonora, They denounce that impunity persists 14 years after the incidentone of the country’s greatest tragedies in recent history.
The parents have denounced that there is complicity between the Government of Mexico and the Supreme Court of Justice so that the crime remains unpunished.
It has been almost a decade and a half since the factbut no one is in prison for their responsibility in the fire and, although more than 20 former public officials have been found responsible, many have died and those who are alive have not received a sentence.
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The only ones who have set foot in jail were those who failed to comply with the judge’s orders, such as not going to sign or traveling on probation.
Miguel Nava Alvarado, legal representative of 40 families, reported in an interview with EFE that the courts have granted more than 120 amparos that represent judicial rulings in favor of the victims, but the State has ignored them.
In the case of the ABC Nursery, injustice and corruption are combined, from which impunity is derived,” he said.
A fire that does not go out
On June 5, 2009, in Hermosillo, a fire that started in a warehouse of the Treasury Secretariat of the Government of Sonora spread to the ABC Nursery, which was subrogated by the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS).
The nursery had the emergency exits blocked and failed to comply with security measures.
The fact aroused accusations against the federal government, then the National Action Party (PAN), and against the state government, the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), but the lawyer for the victims does not see the justice promised by the party of President Andrés Manuel López Worker, Morena.
In 14 years of litigation with most of the victims, we can say that the PAN, PRI and Morena administrations are exactly the same, political parties and officials profit from the tragedy,” Nava Alvarado said.
Wounds that don’t heal
The fire also left more than 100 injured.including children living with sequelae so far.
Danna Paola survived the fire, but lost nine fingers and has burns on 60% of her body, in addition to irreversible neural damage that complicates all her motor functions.
His mother, Marisol Montaño, lamented that the victims have to continue begging for justice and fighting to receive medical attention.
They still have a very big debt with our children, the justice that we have fought for has not yet arrived and it is the right of them and us, as parents, as well as of the families that lost a son who could be here today.” the woman indicated.
Danna Paola has had more than 30 operations and dozens of surgeries still remain to maintain her quality of life.
After the fire, the diagnosis that the Mexican doctors gave her mother was that Danna Paola, then two years old, would not be able to walk, see, or hear, much less speak, but her recovery has been miraculous, thanks to the specialists at the Shriners Hospital.
Now she wants to study Information Technology engineering to develop applications like the ones that have made her life easier to help other children with disabilities.
I have always liked technology a lot, I want to study computer engineering, I would like to create applications and things like that, what I use the most in my life”, commented the young woman.
Despite the consequences of the fire at the ABC Nursery, Danna Paola says that she has nothing to forgive, although she does consider it important that one day justice arrives.
It can be said that somehow we do not know exactly what happened, so we are not clear about that part (of forgiveness), but we do feel that some justice is necessary, “he concluded.
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