A breakthrough atFire of migrant center from Ciudad Juarez, in Mexico. The tragedy happened on Tuesday, March 28 at the border with the United States. The flames had broken out after a protest during which the guests of the National Migration Institute (Inm) set some mattresses on fire. According to a first version of the Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, guests could not go out due to mattresses preventing them from going out. In the video published by the local press, the reality is very different. The dead were 39.
Massacre of migrants in Mexico, the facts
On Tuesday, March 28, a riot broke out at the National Migration Institute (INM) of Ciudad Juarez, on the Mexico-United States border, by migrants who were inside the structure.
The guests made a fire with the mattressesand the event became one tragedy: among the people involved were registered 39 dead and 29 others stayed burned.
39 migrants died in a center in Mexico. A video nails the supervisors
First, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said that the migrants were blocked inside the structure due to the position of the mattresses, which blocked exit routes from the center.
The video that frames the superiors
In the last few hours, the local press organs, including “El Universal”, have published a video that shows a very different reality: the agents in charge of surveillance closed the exits and left the building, leaving the migrants in prison on fire and Smoke.
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The Minister of the Interior Adan Augusto Lopez confirmed the authenticity of the video but made no statement. With these images, the version of a possible responsibility of the migrants in the massacre is reversed.
The migrants who died in the fire were from Guatemala, Venezuela and Honduras.
The reasons for the protest
The sources are also contradictory about the reasons that triggered the protest. According to statements released by the authorities in the early hours of the morning, the migrants were protesting against some administrative decisions.
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However, according to some relatives of the victims and survivors, the protests would have erupted because the guests would not have been received waterfall from morning on, so they felt strong thirst and they could not drink. They would have set the mattresses on fire for that.
At least according to the UN spokeswoman Stephane Dujarric, Guterres intends to launch an in-depth investigation to shed light on the tragedy.
Mexico has recently seen other tragedies: six women were found charred in Guanajuato, a horrific feminicide as an epilogue to a crime.
Photo source: ANSA