translated from Spanish: Confrontation in Tamaulipas was extrajudicial execution: NGO

The eight people who allegedly died in a clash with Tamaulipas state police officers were actually extrajudicially executed, the Nuevo Laredo Human Rights Committee denounced.
According to testimonies gathered by the organization, the deaths of five men and three women, who were allegedly found in military-style uniforms, carrying weapons, “was an arbitrary or extrajudicial execution in the style of the case Tlatlaya”.
Officially, the Tamaulipas authorities reported that on 5 September, state agents clashed with suspected criminals at an Apartment 7 home in Nuevo Laredo, where they would have secured a modified van with handcrafted armor , as well as 15 long guns and one short.
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However, the Nuevo Laredo Human Rights Committee asserts that only Severiano Treviño, a former employee of a soft drink distribution company, lived at the home, along with his daughter and two-year-old granddaughter.
Kassandra, Severian’s daughter – who was killed in the operative – told the organization that a score of agents arrived at the home, mostly uniformed, and that without identifying or displaying a search warrant, they entered arguing that they had received a anonymous call reporting that they were hiding firearms there.
The young woman said that when the cops arrived, his father was wearing shorts and sandals, and that officers forced him to wear a military-style uniform, boots and black helmet.
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The Committee documented that another of the victims, Luis Fernando Hernández, was removed from his home in the Buenavista colony, through an operation involving agents from different state and federal corporations, while the other three men and three women were taken from departments in valles de Anahuac colony.
On a tour of Committee staff, the organization found that there is no evidence of a confrontation, and accused state authorities of not submitting an official and detailed report of what happened.
In addition, it reported that the van allegedly seized in the operation was actually put there by the authorities themselves, who allegedly had moved it to the site with a crane, and that the operation was involved in Army personnel, and that the weapons allegedly carried by the victims were “sown.”
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Through a missive addressed to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador; secretary of the Governorate, Olga Sánchez Cordero; the Secretary of National Defense, Luis Crescencio Sandoval; the national ombudsman, Luis Raúl González Pérez, and the representative of UN-DH Mexico, Jan Jarab, demanded an investigation of the facts and that protective measures be ordered for the victims, their relatives, witnesses and the staff of the Committee, for possible reprisals.
For its part, the Attorney General’s Office of Tamaulipas reported that it initiated a research folder, arising from the complaint of the Human Rights Committee of Nuevo Laredo.
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Original source in Spanish