:quality(70)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/elfinanciero/5YQ7JMXBXJC73FBFO23VUKEGRI.jpg "FGR assures delivery of video of immigration station fire in Ciudad Juárez for transparency")
The Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) assured that the video of the fire at the immigration station in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, last March, will be delivered to whoever requests it for transparency
In an information card, the agency headed by Alejandro Gertz Manero responded to what President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said this Monday.
In his press conference, the president was questioned about the measure of the National Institute of Migration, an agency that decided to reserve the material for five years.
“I am not in favor of hiding information, I don’t know why they did it, I am going to ask so that all the information is allowed to be known. Sometimes lawyers do it for the so-called due process, but in these cases, (you have to make them known). Which owes nothing fears nothing”, he said in the Treasury Room.
What did the Prosecutor say about it?
He specified that there is a request for transparency in which the video of the fire at the immigration station in Ciudad Juárez was requested, but this was addressed to the National Institute of Migration, not to the Prosecutor’s Office.
In response to the aforementioned request, the INM refused to provide the information, and it warned that a bad diffusion of the image it would put the institute’s staff and the migrants involved at risk.
In fact, the INM classified the aforementioned video as reserved for five years, which would be released until 2028.
The Prosecutor’s Office said that in relation to the investigation folder initiated by the fire in which 40 people died, no requests for transparency have been received specifically about that video.
He added that this folder must be kept secret by ministry of law.
However, he pointed out that in this case, the aforementioned video has been widely disseminated by the media and social networks, for which he added that there is no problem in making it known in the event of any request made in this regard.
2023-05-30 03:20:22
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