Jeison Daniel Catarí Rivas is the only foreigner designated by the Mexican Prosecutor’s Office for the fire. The arrest warrant against the Venezuelan is based on statements by other migrants who allegedly stated that they had seen him set fire to a pile of mats at the National Migration Institute (INM) center in Ciudad Juárez. This was stated to the media by Sara Irene Herrerías Guerra, head of the Specialized Prosecutor for Human Rights in the Prosecutor’s Office
A control judge opened a trial for the crimes of homicide and malicious injury to the Venezuelan Jeison Daniel Catarí Rivas, accused by the Mexican Prosecutor’s Office of being the “material author by action” of the fire that left a balance of 40 migrants dead and almost 30 injured in a center of the National Institute of Migration (INM) in Ciudad Juárez.
“Didn’t Deveras have any other option but to burn mats?” the judge questioned the Venezuelan, after citing the statements of some five survivors who claimed to have seen that he ripped out some security cameras, piled up mats and set them on fire with a lighter.
According to the version of one of the witnesses, on the morning of March 27, a group of Venezuelans had entered the immigration station. Hours later, the migrants complained about the overcrowded conditions, lack of food, drinking water and toilet paper that existed in the cells of the INM men’s area.
The middle The Truth of Juarez He noted that prior to the resolution, the criminal public attorney who represented the Venezuelan informed the judge that on March 27 the immigration authorities detained more than 50 people and took them to the station where there were already dozens of people; In addition, he denounced that in that place the migrants were held incommunicado, subjected to cruel and inhumane treatment, without food or drinking water.
The lawyer stressed that the context described above led the 28-year-old to a prolonged state of despair, the defense attorney said. The lawyer asked the judge to apply an exclusion of liability for an invincible error, that is, the fact that the Venezuelan allegedly acted under the false belief that he was not going to achieve the current result.
“There is no relationship between the protest with fire and the death of 40 people and injuries. This is because protesting with fire is not the appropriate conduct to cause harm,” said the public defender.
The litigant also stated that Jeison went from being a victim to being the face of responsibility since he was hospitalized for the injuries suffered in the fire and held in an IMSS hospital until the arrest warrant was executed; furthermore, he initially did not have consular assistance.
However, when issuing the linking order, the judge was emphatic in pointing out that there are other examples of protest in history, from cases such as Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi that gave rise to political changes.
He said that Jeison surely did not intend to cause death or injury, but without being an expert he could have foreseen that by starting a fire there was a risk that it would spread and that someone would be harmed.
In an expert opinion ordered by the Public Ministry, it was established that there were two points of origin of the fire at a distance of approximately two meters.
In the hearing that lasted 12 hours, federal judge Ernesto Cornejo Ángeles heard statements by federal immigration agents Rodolfo C. de la T and Daniel GY, and the arguments of their lawyers. As well as the explanations of the legal representative of the also immigration agent Gloria Liliana RG, of the defenders of the security guard Alan Omar PV
The first four were charged with homicide and injuries in the modality of commission by omission, that is, for allegedly not complying as guarantors or responsible for the safety of the migrants who were in the immigration station on March 27, when the crime was generated. fire. Also for not helping the victims who were locked up.
Jeison Daniel Catarí Rivas is the only foreigner designated by the Mexican Prosecutor’s Office for the fire. The arrest warrant against Catarí is based on statements by other migrants who allegedly identified him, said Wednesday Sara Irene Herrerías Guerra, Head of the Specialized Prosecutor for Human Rights in the FGR.
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