They blame a Navy soldier, Rear Admiral Salvador González, for the fire in Ciudad Juárez (Mexico), in which 39 migrants died. The statement was made by the lawyer for the victims, José Vásquez
They blame a Navy soldier, Rear Admiral Salvador González, for the fire in Ciudad Juárez (Mexico), in which 39 migrants died. The accusation was made by the victims’ lawyer, José Vásquez.
González is the delegate in the Chihuahua state of the National Institute of Migration (INM) was pointed out by a lawyer for the victims of the fire. As he spread Ansa Latina, Vásquez pointed out that the soldier was the one who gave the direct order not to open the cells where the fire started, in the midst of a riot of Venezuelan migrants who were protesting when announcing their imminent deportation.
“He did it over the phone. They spoke to him and warned him and when he was consulted he replied that they should not open the bars ‘for any reason’ but rather leave them there dying,” the lawyer said, in statements to the newspaper Remodeling.
Likewise, according to the lawyer José Vásquez, the information was obtained from the testimony of the victims of the fire, “his clients”, but he maintained that for security reasons he cannot reveal their identity.
The defender also accused the head of the INM Detention Center, Daniel Goray, of managing “a network of corruption” in which Migrants are threatened with being detained for more than six months or held incommunicado if they do not pay an exit fee of $500.
The lawyer reiterated that the migrant victims of the fire did not commit any crime: “Mexican law contemplates migration as an administrative fault and it is not a reason to keep them deprived of their liberty, much less allow them to die in this way.”
The president of Mexico, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, asked to wait for the results of the investigations and for now official sources announced that the first four arrest warrants have already been issued.
For her part, the Minister of Public Security, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, said that eight employees (3 immigration agents and five private security guards and one migrant are accused of being responsible for the fire but did not disclose their names. On the opposition side the Ministers of the Interior, Adán Augusto López (in charge of the INM) and Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard.
According to the news agency Latin Private security at the immigration station is run by a company owned by Elías Valdés, Nicaragua’s honorary consul in the northern states of Coahuila and Nuevo León, who has received contracts for more than $140 million from the current government.
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