Gustavo Castillo and Juan Carlos Flores
La Jornada Newspaper
Wednesday, October 16, 2024, p. 15
On October 1, six alleged members of a criminal group were killed by Colima state police and personnel from the Mexican Navy Secretariat (Semar).
The relatives of the victims demand justice and affirm that the agents and sailors made illegal arrests and hours later executed the civilians.
In complaints filed by family members before the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Colima (FGE) and in the amparo trial 1161/2024, there are references to the illegal detention of eight people in the Tabachines neighborhood, in the municipality of Villa de Álvarez.
Two of those people were released after having suffered torture. The other six were executed in an alleged confrontation in the town of Puerta de Anzar, 70 kilometers from where they were deprived of their freedom, according to the allegations.
The Colima prosecutor’s office said yesterday that There are no indications that link elements of security corporations in the abduction of the alleged perpetrators, as circulated in various media.
. He added that, since he became aware of the facts, he began investigations.
Until now, authorities have not reported the identity of the six victims and the case is in the hands of the local prosecutor’s office.
On October 1, in Villa de Álvarez, police and sailors detained four people in a search
according to the state’s Public Security Secretariat (SSP).
According to the FGE investigation folder on the case, citizen Brenda Guadalupe N
He noted that the arrests occurred on Tuesday, October 1, around 12 noon by agents of the FGE and the National Guard.
She reported that she and her husband, identified only by his initials JRCB, were traveling in their truck on the Colima-Coquimatlán highway, when they were detained and then taken blindfolded to another place, where they were tortured, while they were asked why they had murdered to some police officers.
Brenda Guadalupe said that she was raped by several men for more than half an hour and in order to be released they forced her to say that she was beaten and abused by her husband.
For her part, Alma N
filed an amparo lawsuit before the 32nd judicial circuit based in the state of Colima, for the disappearance of Luis Gabriel Rosales Rodríguez, Alexis Adrián Castillo Mendoza and Miguel Ángel Serna Barragán, alleged detainees in the search
from the Tabachines neighborhood.
Semar informed the district judge that it found no record of any arrest or reinforcement of support for the SSP of Colima on Wednesday, October 2. But on the night of Tuesday, October 1, the SSP of Colima reported that elements of the State Preventive Police and Semar clashed with armed civilians in the community of Puerta de Anzar, municipality of Colima, leaving six alleged criminals dead. dead.
On October 4, the district court where the indirect amparo trial was filed received information that those reported missing were identified by relatives as those who died on the night of October 1 due to gunshots from state and marine police.
Governor Indira Vizcaíno said on October 14 that There is no evidence that links the searches with what happened in Puerta de Anzar
.
