Mexico City. President Andrés Manuel López Obrador rejected the claim that 25 people have lost their lives during a confrontation in La Concordia, Chiapas, between an armed group and the National Guard.
He said that in recent days there were two confrontations, one between organized crime groups that operate in that border region with Guatemala, where five individuals lost their lives, and another between the security corporation and a criminal gang, where another five people were killed. .
Yesterday, the Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Human Rights Center reported having knowledge that on March 31, “a massacre was committed in the town of Niño Héroes, municipality of La Concordia, where, according to testimonies, 25 people were murdered in the context of a confrontation between the National Guard and an armed group.”
This Wednesday morning, when asked about this complaint, the Chief Executive rejected the figure and said that the violence in the country is “focused” on some points exclusively.
He asked that two pictures be shown, one with the murders in the country from Wednesday to Sunday of last week, and another from yesterday.
In the first, it shows that 24 homicides occurred in Chiapas, while in yesterday’s report six were reported.
“Here is what happened in Chiapas, six (murders). That (the 25 murders) is what a human rights organization says that is left with the idea that we are the same as the repressors of before.”
The man from Tabasco indicated that two confrontations took place in that area, and the death toll—according to his reports—was ten. “And that human rights organization spoke of 25, it is not true. “They lie.”
—Did they clash between civilians? —She asked him.
—It was a confrontation between two groups, they entered a ranch that supposedly belongs to a leader of a group and they confronted each other and there were about five dead. The next day or shortly after, reinforcements arrive and we are building two bridges there in La Concordia and there is a National Guard camp (…) and crossing the panga, there was a confrontation with the National Guard, on one of the bridges, “That was the other one,” he responded.
The president acknowledged that although in Chiapas last week (Wednesday to Sunday) there were 24 murders in Chiapas, “it has to do with different events” and not exclusively with the two confrontations referred to.
“Today none of the 25 is leaving and it is not like that. It could be that if they are all added together, yes, but they are not the same because those confrontations are two cases, directly between gangs, I think five lost their lives and five more with the confrontation with the National Guard.”
The president said that as a result of the operation, weapons were seized and 13 people were detained, the majority of Guatemalan origin.
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– 2024-04-09 00:44:47
