The Chiapas Prosecutor’s Office arrested four police officers from the municipality of Suchiate for their alleged participation in the murder of a woman of Haitian origin on October 25.
The state agency reported that the elements are accused of “homicide by improper omission or commission by omission and illegal exercise of public service.”
According to the version of the authorities, elements of the Specialized Police attached to the Prosecutor’s Office of Immigrants arrested Beni Alexander “N”; Carlos Enrique “N”; José Armando “N” and Yarí Jazmín “N” and “others, as co-authors”.
The events took place at the entrance of Rancho El Checo, ejido Nueva Libertad, inside Tapachula, without the authorities detailing the murder.
In fact, the Chiapas Prosecutor’s Office maintained that the female victim has not yet been identified.
On November 23, Animal Político announced that so far in the six-year term with Andrés Manuel López Obrador, 9 foreigners died in the custody of the National Institute of Migration (INM).
Last year there were three fatalities in immigration custody. A 40-year-old Honduran who committed suicide at the Guadalupe migrant holding center in Monterrey, Nuevo León; a 31-year-old Guatemalan asylum seeker who suffocated during a riot at the Tenosique station in Tabasco, and a 41-year-old Salvadoran who died at the Enrique Cabrera hospital in Mexico City. Although the registry assures that the cause of death was “respiratory failure, atypical pneumonia”, he is the first victim of COVID-19 inside an immigration detention center. His death was known thanks to a recommendation from the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH), which pointed to the INM at a time when the institution headed by Francisco Garduño denied the infections. Despite the fact that in Mexico there are more than 292 thousand deaths from coronavirus since the pandemic began in March 2020, the INM assures that only one person died with this disease in its facilities. In February of this year, the government said at least 55 migrants had lost their lives to COVID-19, although it did not give details on whether they were people in custody.
In 2019, the first year with López Obrador in government, there were four deaths: three who died victims of a heart attack (two in Tapachula and one in Monterrey) and another a ten-year-old girl who fell from her bunk in the Iztapalapa station and who agonized for seven hours without the authorities helping her.
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