So he recommended including in the investigations the elements that were missing and whose names had not been identified.
“Recommendation to determine their responsibility in accordance with their participation, since failure to do so contributes to impunity,” notes in file 168VG/2024.
Investigation against all those responsible
Given these data, the families of the victims and the organizations that have legally supported them consider that the case, described as the first “emblematic massacre” of the six-year term of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has not been completely resolved.
“The conviction against the 12 Tamaulipas police officers is recognized as an act of justice; however, the case remains unfinished. The families have not been compensated nor has the Mexican State presented a public apology for what happened,” they read in a statement this Thursday.
“The sentence did not allow us to clarify the reason for the persecution, execution and burning of the victims, nor to reveal the criminal structure, interests, corruption and intellectual authorship behind the events,” they added.
The Foundation for Justice and the Jesuit Network with Migrants of Guatemala explained that the investigation was carried out by the Tamaulipas authorities while the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic has already notified the closure of the case.
That is why they demand a complementary investigation that allows for the complete clarification of the facts and the identification of all those responsible.
Damage repair is missing
After the victims’ remains were repatriated, the families were left in “institutional abandonment,” they say.
The CNDH established that families should receive specialized, continuous and free psychological and thanatological care; medical attention; financial compensation; as well as satisfaction measures and guarantees of non-repetition. But they point out that none of these measures have been fulfilled.
