Eleven police officers were found guilty yesterday Thursday of the 2021 17 murders immigrantswho were shot before their bodies were burned, on the border with USA, announced the prosecutor’s office of the state of Tamaulipas, Mexico. The prosecutor’s office secured “the conviction” of 11 police officers for homicide by intention and of another who was facing the charge of abuse of power, he explained in the press release he published.
After a hearing that lasted more than three months, Judge Patricio Lugo Haramigio ruled that there was sufficient evidence to convict the former police officers, whose sentences – to be announced in the coming days – could reach up to 50 years in prison.
On January 23, 2021, the Tamaulipas prosecutor’s office announced that the charred bodies of 19 people, most of them immigrants from Guatemala who were trying to cross illegally into the US territory through Mexico, were found in a burned car.
The victims “They were killed by bullets and then [τα πτώματά τους] they burned“, according to the same source.
The other two victims, according to the Mexican authorities, were the smugglers of the migrants, who took them to the border area. Initially, all 12 police officers were charged with murder. But one of them agreed to cooperate with the prosecution and was convicted of abuse of power. From the state of Tamaulipas, which is washed by the Gulf of Mexico, passes the shortest road to the USA from the south. But the state is characterized as very dangerous, due to the presence of gangs, which they kidnap, demand ransom, murder immigrants.
The Camargo sector, where the bodies were found, has turned into a battleground between cartel of northeastern Mexico – arose when the Los Setas cartel – and the Gulf cartel.
The case is one of the deadliest massacres of migrants in Mexico’s history, after that of 72 people by alleged drug traffickers, also committed in the state of Tamaulipas, in August 2010.
Source: News Beast
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