The Mexican government reported sunday that it will take “blunt” legal action to demand that the United States protect its citizens in that country and condemed the shooting in El Paso, Texas, in which three Mexicans were killed and nine others injured.
In a video posted on his Twitter account, the chancellor rejected the shooting at an El Paso mall, which was allegedly executed by a 21-year-old white man arrested at the scene and for which U.S. prosecutors will seek the death penalty on the charge of capital murder.
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“What has happened is inadmissible,” Ebrard said after calling the event “an act of barbarism in which innocent Mexicans and Mexicans have lost their lives and nine people have been injured.”
Position on the tragedy in El Paso Texas: pic.twitter.com/gIXuJcQJLy
— Marcelo Ebrard C. (@m_ebrard) August 4, 2019
He added that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador instructed him “that this position, this outrage of Mexico be translated first, in protecting the affected families.
But also “in effective, prompt, expeditious and forceful legal actions for Mexico to help and demand that the conditions be given to protect the Mexican-American community and Mexican symbes in the United States”.
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He added that this Sunday, at 16:30 hours he will hold a press conference to publicize the first legal actions that the government of Mexico will take, in accordance with international law.
El Paso has 680,000 inhabitants, 83% of whom are Hispanic, according to 2018 data.
The city is a neighbor of Mexico’s Ciudad Juárez, in the state of Chihuahua, and its inhabitants maintain an intense social and commercial dynamic, with citizens from both sides going back and forth to work, study or shop.
With information from AFP and Notimex.
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