• April 19, 2024

Julio Manuel de Caso González, finance secretary of the Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) in the Federal District, He was found dead in his office. According to his assistant, he apparently committed suicide after facing strong personal problems.

In an interview withAdela Micha for Multimedia Image Group , the head of the Attorney General of the Federal District (PGJDF), Rodolfo Ríos Garza, details that "experts found the typical characteristics of suicide" instead of the facts.

"I had some depression because of personal problems with the wife and children," explains the person who helped him.

The official explained that the experts of the Public Prosecutor's Office arrived at the PRD-DF's finance offices located in Tonalá street, Colonia Roma, where "they found the body suspended from the neck by a bow and with a shot in the temple".

During the night of Wednesday meetings were held in the office of the political party, but in the early morning Case Gonzalez did not leave, so his assistant looked for him and found him dead on the roof of the building.

In the first impressions in the place of the facts, according to the experts and related to the statement of the assistant, "we could say that it is a fact (suicide), it would only be confirmed with some expert opinions", he concluded.

Suicide, common in Mexico?

According to information from INational Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) in its latest report , there are five thousand 718 suicides per year, of which 613 occur in Mexico City.

On the other hand, World Health Organization (WHO ) details that the main causes of suicides they are mental illnesses such as depression, alcohol consumption, substance abuse, violence, feelings of loss and diverse cultural and social environments.

Although not all suicides can be prevented, it is enough to take some measures that help identify a person who intends to take his own life, such as reducing access to means to do so, taking appropriate treatment in the case of mental illnesses and noticing the changes of behavior in individuals.