On Friday, a hearing was held on charges of imputation to officials National Institute for Migration (INM) arrested on Thursday Juarez City, Chihuahua, after the fire on March 27, which remained 40 undocumented immigrants killed and 27 injured.
The court issued a decision on preventive detention in respect of three officials who worked at the INM station located in Chihuahua: the head of the department of material resources, Eduardo Apodaka, the coordinator of the Beta Migrant Protection Group, Juan Carlos Mesa, and immigration agent Cecilia Rivera.
Three INM officials in Chihuahua have been charged with crimes of illegal public service, injury and murder.
Another person involved in this case, identified by the Attorney General of the Republic (AGR), is head of the INM in Chihuahua Salvador Gonzalez, who cannot be apprehended because on the same day that the order was issued, Gonzalez received the temporary suspension granted by the judge in respect of any arrest warrant, and which he had requested through the amparo since April 12 of last year.
The initial hearing will resume in part two next Tuesday, after two days to formulate charges between Thursday evening and Friday afternoon.
Mexico’s FGR said it would also file criminal charges against the head of the INM at the national level, Francisco Garduño, and the director of immigration control and verification, Antonio Molina.
Both officials were called on April 21 for a preliminary hearing that will address allegations related to the fire that killed 40 immigrants in Ciudad Juarez.
The FGR indicated that it had identified “a pattern of behavior in which safeguards that were essential and indispensable in these cases were overlooked by those in charge.”
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador acknowledged that the migrants involved in the incident were unable to escape because the person responsible for the keys was not present at the time of the incident.
Mexican President and Mexican Interior Minister Adán Augusto López refused to ask for the director of the National Institute of Migration to be fired until a court decision was made on whether he was responsible for the events.
After the event, which killed 6 Hondurans, 7 Salvadorans, 19 Guatemalans, 7 Venezuelans and one Colombian, the El Salvadoran government called it a “state crime”.
According to Mexican civil organizations, 2022 was the most tragic year for migrants in Mexico, with about 900 people killed trying to cross the border from the country to the United States without documents.
According to EFE
Source: La Opinion
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