A video from a safety digicam contained in the Ciudad Juarez facility showed guards strolling away when the hearth began late Monday contained in the cell holding the migrants, and never making any try to launch them.
The grievance, which was shared with the AP, was filed Wednesday with federal investigators from the Lawyer Normal’s Workplace by lawyer Jorge Vázquez Campbell. Campbell stated he wouldn’t reveal his shoppers identities for his or her safety, past saying they have been related to the case.
The grievance stated that González “gave the order by the use of a telephone name that on no account ought to the migrants ‘housed’ contained in the place the place the hearth began be launched.”
The formal allegation got here as Mexican authorities announced Wednesday that eight suspects who labored on the facility have been beneath investigation, in addition to one migrant who allegedly began the hearth.
Sara Irene Herrerías, the prosecutor main the investigation, stated that González was not one of many eight officers known as in to offer statements concerning the incident.
5 of the officers being investigated have been contracted safety guards from a personal agency. The remaining three embody two officers from the Nationwide Immigration Institute and a Chihuahua state immigration official.
The federal government stated it was getting ready to request 4 arrest orders associated to the case.
Campbell stated his shoppers advised him that one of many detained migrants requested a guard for a cigarette and a lighter after which 5 migrants who had been detained that day started to protest.
“The officers made enjoyable of them, they acquired irritated and two of them (migrants) set a mattress on fireplace,” Campbell stated.
That was the second, Campbell stated, that immigration brokers on the facility notified González of the hearth and he “advised them to not do something and on no account ought to they allow them to go away.”
The circumstances of the hearth have angered families across the region who have been nonetheless awaiting affirmation of whether or not their family members have been useless or alive.
Late Wednesday, a whole lot of migrants walked throughout the border in Ciudad Juarez in protest and turned themselves over to U.S. authorities.
Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador stated Thursday that he had advised the Lawyer Normal to not give anybody particular consideration and that impunity wouldn’t be permitted.
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