They already add 27 people arrested for his alleged responsibility in the massacre in the community of La Mora, in Bavispe, Sonora, which occurred on November 4, 2019, reported the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena), Luis Cresencio Sandoval.
The general explained that since the beginning of the actions of the personnel of the Inter-institutional Group, formed to attend to the case, 27 people have been arrested, either with an arrest warrant, in flagrante delicto or in intelligence activities.
In this way, 11 people left linked to the massacre –in which women and children of the LeBarón family were murdered–, who already have arrest warrants.
There are already 27 people detained in the case of the murders of members of the LeBarón family in Bavispe, Sonora, reports Defense Secretary @Luis_C_Sandoval. pic.twitter.com/R16uHxM4dB
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This was pointed out by Luis Crescencio Sandoval in the morning conference, in which President Andrés Manuel López Obrador presumed that in his government “there is no longer impunity“.
“If it is not only in words, they are facts, we have open investigations in all cases,” he said Thursday.
The last update on the arrests in the Bavispe case was in November 2021, when the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) arrested Ricardo Alberto “M”, alias “Coma Bravo”, in the municipality of Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua.
On the second anniversary of the massacre, security authorities reported that they had arrested, charged and linked to trial 24 people, for the attack that left nine dead, three women and six minors.
Read more about it: “López Obrador has betrayed the dead and the disappeared”: Javier Sicilia
According to a tally made by the FGR — which brought the case on November 8, 2019 — five people have been charged with aggravated homicide, attempted homicide, as well as damages and direct participation in the massacre.
While the rest have been prosecuted for organized crime, crimes against health and illegal carrying of a firearm, according to the agency.
On November 4, 2019, nine relatives of activist Julián LeBarón were killed: three adult women and six minors, including two infants, in addition to six injured minors.
According to the then Secretary of Public Security, Alfonso Durazo, the vans in which three women and 14 minors were traveling were ambushed by armed groups.
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