For his part, Adrián LeBarón said that all victims of organized crime should be treated as victims of terrorism in Mexico.
“Don’t dare tell those of us who have been victims of massacres, those who have seen their children and parents dismembered, those who have had to leave their land, those who have died in explosions, that terrorism does not exist,” he said. LeBaron.
The man described the judge’s resolution as historic in a country where there are thousands of families seeking justice for their loved ones.
“That the facts of terrorism are investigated is justice not only for us, but for every town and corner of the country where a family has been separated, destroyed and terror was sown in its wake,” he explained.
In the 1920s, the LeBaróns settled between the limits of Chihuahua and Sonora, without imagining that years later they would have to raise their voices, on more than one occasion, before organized crime and the government to demand protection and justice.
In 2019, the LeBarón family suffered the murder of nine of its members – three women and six children – at the hands of a commando that shot them down in the vicinity of Sonora and Chihuahua.
Authorities believe they could have been confused with a rival criminal group, but “who ambushes women and children?” the family questioned.
