Tamaulipas, Mexico.
Governor Tamaulipas (northern Mexico), Francisco García Cabeza de Vaca, promised on Wednesday that “there will be no impunity” in the case of the 19 people killed and burned, most of them alleged migrants, and assured that he is in contact with the Government Guatemala to identify victims.
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“I share the outrage caused by the criminal acts that ended the lives of 19 people in Camargo. Since I made a commitment to the people of Tamaulipas, there will be no impunity,” the governor said in a video broadcast on the networks social.
On January 23, authorities found two trucks burned, one of them with 19 bodies inside, in the city of Santa Anita, in the municipality of Camargo, on the border with Texas (United States) and the Mexican state of Nuevo León.
Garcia Cabeza de Vaca said on Wednesday that the Tamaulipas government has been working with the state prosecutor’s office from the beginning to “fully clarify the facts” and said it maintains “permanent communication” with the federal and Guatemalan governments to “assist in identifying victims.” and providing all the necessary support to families. “
“For the families of the victims, I support my solidarity and commitment that justice will be done,” he said.
Tamaulipas Attorney General Irving Barrios said Tuesday that 12 state police officers had been arrested for their likely role in the murder, although he did not specify whether the officers committed the crime or covered up the killers.
The governor said that despite this detention, Tamaulipas has “thousands of honest police officers who take care of the integrity of the people of Tamaulipas every day with the utmost dedication.”
In addition to the state police, the National Institute for Migration (INM) is in the spotlight, given that one of the vans at the crime scene had previously been guarded by immigration authorities.
As a result, Mexican Interior Secretary Olga Sánchez Cordero, the ministry responsible for the INM, said on Wednesday that “dozens of immigration officials” had been fired and reported to the prosecutor’s office for the events.
The authorities also maintain the line of investigation indicating organized crime and smuggling of migrants behind this network.
According to testimonies collected by Efe, on the day of the afternoon events, the armed men of the Northeast Cartel (CDN), the former Zeta, allegedly confronted the Gulf Cartel (CDG), a criminal organization that controls Tamaulipas, instead sacrifice.
The CDG and the CDN have been in a dispute over control of northeastern Mexico since March 2010, a conflict that has left more than 15,000 missing and thousands dead since then. EFE