“Aggressions against migrants by the Army cannot be repeated”: Sheinbaum

The armed attack against a truck in which undocumented migrants were traveling in Chiapas by elements of the Army, killing six of them and injuring ten more, “cannot be repeated,” so necessary measures are being taken to do so, he emphasized. President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.

He regretted the murder of the migrants by, presumably, members of the Mexican Army, and stressed that the facts are already being investigated.

Interrogated this Thursday morning at the National Palace, the president indicated that the two soldiers accused by the Secretariat of National Defense (Sedena) of having shot at the migrants were already placed at the disposal of the corresponding authority and the Attorney General’s Office. República is already investigating the case.

“It is a regrettable fact and must be investigated and punished. The Sedena elements who fired are already placed at the disposal of the FGR,” he indicated.

He stressed that it is up to the prosecutor’s office to investigate these events, how they occurred, the responsibilities of the soldiers accused of having fired and whether there is additional responsibility of commanders.

The head of the Executive stressed that she gave instructions to the head of the Sedena, General Ricardo Trevilla Trejo, to take measures so that a situation like this is not repeated.

He said that the migrants allegedly murdered by the military were from Egypt, El Salvador and Peru.

For this reason, the Secretariats of Foreign Affairs and the Interior are already establishing contact with the families of the victims for the repatriation of the bodies.