Huitzilac case: National Guard investigated for the disappearance of three young men

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, during his morning report, assured that investigations into the Huitzilac case are continuing. He confirmed that they still do not know who were guilty of the murder of two young men and one still alive.

He pointed out that progress is being made in the investigation and commented that no one can yet be singled out because according to the testimony of the young man who is still alive, the attackers were a group of “thugs”, as defined by the president this morning.

He added that the participation of the National Guard was when the inhabitants of Fierro del Toro and Tres Marias, from the municipality of Huitzilac made the blockades on the federal highway and the Mexico-Cuernavaca quota highway. They demanded the location of the three disappeared persons and, according to testimonies, they claimed that they were arrested by inhabitants of Topilejo and that there was a possible involvement of the National Guard.

Three young men were arrested by National Guard personnel when they were singled out by ejidatarios to engage in clandestine logging of trees. They accused them of being responsible for the deforestation of 30% of trees in the upper Ajusco of Mexico City.

According to testimonies, they were handed over to the Secretariat of Citizen Security (SSC), who consigned them to community members of San Miguel Topilejo, in the Tlalpan mayor's office. Two days after these events and the blockades carried out for their location, two of them were found, with firearms to the head, in a cave in the town of Parres, Tlalpan mayor's office, very close to San Miguel Topilejo, while the third man was channeled to a hospital in Mexico City where it is being attended to.

The president asked that no one will be singled out, since so far it is not known who were the perpetrators of this crime, however, he stressed that it cannot be assured so far whether any public servant intervened in these actions

These same words were stated by the Attorney General's Office, who just a week ago, through spokesman Ulises Lara López, delivered a message to the media.

“It is important to note that this Prosecutor's Office has considered lines of investigation that could point to the possible participation of both public servants and civilians in the events”

In this message, Lara López specified that the investigation, initiated for enforced disappearance, will be attracted by the Public Ministry of the General Coordination for the Investigation of High Impact Crimes.

He also stated that, as of Tuesday, March 23, ministerial staff of the Office of the Prosecutor Specialized in the Search, Location or Investigation of Disappeared Persons (FIPEDE), the Coordination of Forensic Investigation and Expert Services and the group specialized in immediate search and reaction (GERI) have carried out 70 proceedings.

“Among the actions carried out are fieldwork, interviews, ministerial statements, both by authorities and civilians, inter-agency meetings, expert opinions, inspections in the place where the bodies were located and context analysis”

The president regretted the events that occurred and said that the Mexico City Prosecutor's Office is responsible for the investigation and that later the progress of the investigation will be reported so that criminals are punished, so it is not ruled out that the elements of the National Guard are not involved “We do not establish relations of complicity with anyone”, said AMLO from Morelos.

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