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MEXICO CITY — Mexican prosecutors mentioned Friday they’ve arrested three extra officers of the nation’s immigration company for a fireplace at a detention heart final month that killed 40 migrants.
Amongst these arrested have been the native head of provides for the immigration company and an official of the Grupo Beta migrant safety service, the the Lawyer Normal’s Workplace mentioned in an announcement.
The director of company for the northern border state of Chihuahua has been ordered to look in court docket, however has not been arrested. The fireplace occurred March 27 within the border metropolis of Ciudad Juarez, after a migrant allegedly set fireplace to foam mattresses to protest a supposed switch.
The immigration company’s prime nationwide official, Francisco Garduño, is scheduled to make a court docket look April 21. At that time prosecutors will make their formal accusations and current proof.
Prosecutors had introduced Tuesday that Garduño would face unspecified legal costs within the case.
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who has recognized Garduño for years and requested him to take the job in 2019 when then U.S. President Donald Trump was pressuring Mexico to cut back migration, mentioned Wednesday that Garduño would keep in his job.
Federal prosecutors has mentioned Garduño was remiss in not stopping the catastrophe in Ciudad Juarez regardless of earlier indications of issues at his company’s detention facilities. Prosecutors mentioned authorities audits had discovered “a sample of irresponsibility and repeated omissions” within the immigration institute.
The fireplace in Ciudad Juarez, throughout the border from El Paso, rapidly crammed the power with smoke; nobody let the migrants out.
Three Mexican immigration officers, a guard and a Venezuelan migrant accused of beginning the blaze are already in custody going through murder costs.