Eight people are suspected of murder in the case of migrants killed in a fire at a detention center for illegal immigrants in northern Mexico. Arrest warrants were issued for two federal agents, a migration agency official and five private security guards.
At a press conference, the Mexican prosecutor specializing in human rights, Sara Irene Herrerias, explained that these suspects did nothing to help the migrants who were in the detention center.
“None of the public officials or private security guards took any action to open the door for the migrants who were already inside with the fire burning,” the prosecutor said.
The eight suspects are accused of murder and damage to the property of others, but Sara Herrerias stresses that the investigation is just beginning.
“The crime for which the process was initiated is homicide and damage to the property of others. Notwithstanding that, as we proceed with the investigations, we will analyze other possible crimes that are likely to be
with abuse of authority and even mistreatment. These are just hypotheses that we will test as part of the investigation and evidence that we find. But we started with the crime of homicide, ”he explained.
As a result of the fact, of the 68 migrants who were there, 40 died and 29 were injured and in a “delicate-serious” state of health, according to the National Institute of Migration.
At the time of the fire, 68 men from Central and South America were being held at the facility, dead and injured from Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador, according to a statement from the Mexican Attorney General’s Office.
Guatemalan Foreign Minister Mario Búcaro said that 28 of the dead were Guatemalan citizens.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the fire was started by immigrants in protest after learning they were going to be deported.
“They never imagined that this was going to cause this terrible misfortune,” López Obrador said.
The deaths forced the government to rent freezers to store the bodies, according to Chihuahua state prosecutor César Jáuregui.
Source: TSF
