translated from Spanish: Jalisco prosecutor’s office to investigate ministerial police over arbitrary arrests

The Jalisco State Prosecutor’s Office announced on Saturday that it will investigate the entire Ministerial Police over arbitrary arrests of protesters that took place on Friday, June 5, and noted that two people from the corporation are already detained for these events.
Illegal arrests occurred in the vicinity of the office of the Prosecutor’s Office, on 14th Street in Guadalajara, where the State Commission on Human Rights documented that police elements of this unit illegally and arbitrarily arrested people who demanded justice for the murder on June 4th of young Giovanni Lopez.
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The attorney general, Gerardo Octavio Solís, admitted at a virtual press conference that ministerial police from his unit were involved in these illegal arrests, although he noted that they acted on their own.
Solís explained that the instruction to the police elements was to “not fall into provocations and remain calm”, something that did not happen, as stated in multiple videos published on social media, media, and of which the Commission on Human Rights also has registration.
A group of ministerial policemen, stressed the prosecutor, disobeyed the order and left the property on the edge of official vehicles, to make a series of “arbitrary arrests without the intervention of public ministries”.
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In addition, Octavio Solís noted that the policemen violently arrested several groups of young people, and subsequently moved them to cells, but without arrest records; which, he said, is a “flagrant violation of constitutional rights.”
“There was abuse against young people outside these facilities,” the prosecutor stressed, offering the public “a heartfelt apology” for the performance of the ministerial police.
On Saturday, the Jalisco State Commission on Human Rights announced that it documented that, at social protests last June 4 and 5 in Guadalajara for the death at the hands of local policemen of Giovanni Lopez, a 30-year-old, police elements of the state committed “enforced disappearances” of demonstrators, as well as “illegal and arbitrary detentions”.
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Original source in Spanish