Tamaulipas, Mexico.
The governor of Tamaulipas (northern Mexico), Francisco García Cap de Vaca, Promised on Wednesday that “there will be no impunity” in the case of the 19 people killed and burned, most alleged migrants, and assured that he is in contact with the Government of Guatemala for victim identification.
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“I share the outrage caused by the criminal acts that ended the lives of 19 people in the municipality of Camargo. As I promised the Tamaulipas, there will be no impunity,” the governor said in a video message posted on social media.
On January 23, authorities found two charred trucks, one with 19 bodies inside, in the town of Santa Anita, in the municipality of Camargo, bordering Texas (United States) and the Mexican state. of Nuevo León.
Garcia Cap de Vaca said Wednesday that the government of Tamaulipas is collaborating from the outset with the state prosecutor’s office for the “full clarification of the facts” and said he maintains “permanent communication” with the federal government and the of Guatemala for “collaborating in the identification of victims and providing all necessary support to families.”
“To the relatives of the victims ratify my solidarity and my commitment that justice will be done,” he stressed.
Tamaulipas Attorney General Irving Barris announced on Tuesday that 12 state police officers were caught for their likely involvement in the crime, though he did not detail whether police officers perpetrated the murder or covered up the killers. .
The governor stated that despite this arrest, Tamaulipas has “thousands of honorable policemen who day by day care with the utmost dedication for the integrity of the Tamaulipas.”
In addition to the state police, the National Migration Institute (INM) is in the spotlight since one of the vans at the crime scene had been previously protected by immigration authorities.
As a result, the Secretary of the Interior of Mexico, Olga Sánchez Cordero, the ministry responsible for the INM, said on Wednesday that “dozens of immigration officials” have been dismissed and reported to the Prosecutor’s Office for these facts.
Authorities also maintain the line of investigation that points to organized crime and the trafficking of migrants behind this whole network.
According to witnesses gathered by Efe, on the day of the events in the afternoon assassins of the Northeast Cartel (CDN), the former Zetas, allegedly clashed with the Golf Cartel (CDG), a criminal organization that controls Tamaulipas, at the place of slaughter.
The CDG and the CDN have maintained a dispute over control of the northeastern states of Mexico since March 2010, a conflict that has since led to more than 15,000 missing and thousands dead. EFE