The Attorney General's Office (FGR) reopened the investigation into the death of chef Elisa Loyo Gutiérrez, which occurred 17 years ago in the Philippines, reported the National Citizen Observatory on Feminicide.
In a statement, it was detailed that, following the ruling of amparo in review 7/2024, issued by the Collegiate Court in Criminal and Labor Matters of the Eighth Circuit, the determination of non-exercise of criminal action issued in 2022 was annulled.
Thus, the FGR must resume the investigation into the death of Elisa Loyo and conduct it with a gender perspective to investigate the violent deaths of women.
The amparo ruling concluded that the investigation was not conducted according to protocols and standards, and did not adequately rule out the possibility that the young woman was a victim of feminicide.
"This ruling mentions that there are many errors and the complexity of the facts (...) they did not approach to carry out all the proceedings that the Public Ministry should have conducted at that time when they learned of the events. On December 23, 2008, I filed a formal complaint and agents were sent, at that time, from the Attorney General's Office to the Philippines. They went twice, did nothing," reproached Rosa de Guadalupe “Tita” Gutiérrez Cabello at a press conference.
During a meeting with Elisa's mother, the FGR committed to conducting an investigation with a gender perspective and to carry out all necessary proceedings to clarify this case.
Elisa Loyo Gutiérrez disappeared in December 2008 at the Fontana Hotel in Pampanga and was found dead; authorities in the Philippines classified it as a suicide.
However, "Tita" has documented various irregularities, including the alleged concealment of evidence, inconsistencies, and the absence of an investigation with a gender perspective.
"The crime scene was manipulated. It was said that only the victim had been in that place, in this case my daughter (...) The necropsies from the local Filipino authority contradicted those from the federal authority. Also, many facts are evidently a death with torture by more than two people. Because my daughter, as I repeat, was manipulated at the crime scene, and it is proven where she was lifeless and subsequently hung," "Tita" recounted.
She also recalled that her daughters went to the Philippines for nine days to ask investigators to provide them with the photographs, which were examined by experts in Sonora.
Furthermore, "Tita" Gutiérrez criticized that the FGR's agreement is full of errors, such as having requested Elisa's laptop, which she claims she handed over immediately after her death.
Elisa's mother also mentioned that, prior to her death, her daughter noticed that there were thefts in the kitchen at her workplace and that she was afraid of her boss.
