Alonso Urrutia
La Jornada newspaper
Thursday, November 25, 2021, p. eleven
During the investigations into the massacre of migrants perpetrated in 2010 in San Fernando, Tamaulipas, the then Subsecretariat Specialized in Investigation of Organized Crime (Seido) of the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) diverted its actions to investigate Ana Lorena Delgadillo, director Foundation for Justice; Mercedes Doretti, who coordinates the work in Mexico of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, and Marcela Turati, a journalist who followed the case, denounced organizations that defend fundamental guarantees.
With the participation of the Miguel Agustín Pro Juárez Human Rights Center, the Mexican Commission for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights, Amnesty International and Fifth Element, among others, they condemned that under the law to combat organized crime the activities of who participated in the defense of the victims, between 2016 and 2017.
They treated us like we were members of organized crime
Censored Delgadillo, who explained that the investigation against him arose from an alleged dissatisfaction of one of the victims’ relatives. However, after noting that they filed a complaint in Internal Affairs of the Attorney General’s Office to punish those responsible, he said that they learned of this irregularity when reviewing the last volume of the file, which they obtained after years of requesting it, in the details of the monitoring of their activity were detailed.
Turatti expressed outrage against the diversion of the investigations, because it is an act of censorship that violates the right to information and represents an act of legal harassment. He argued that it is a performance in the logic of how they investigate
disappearances, where the authority prefers to bury corpses than to know the truth.
In the lawsuit, the organizations condemn that through the then Seido, the PGR diverted the inquiries to benefit impunity and unprotect the victims. It also set aside its duty to clarify the facts and investigate the perpetrators, and used the tools designed to combat organized crime to violate privacy, intimacy, security and communications, and criminalize those of us who seek justice from different areas. , the truth and the right to information
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They denounced that In this way, Seido equated the work of Delgadillo, Turatti and Doretti with organized crime and placed them at risk, by adding all the previous information to the file of the preliminary investigation.
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Those affected consider that basically, beyond the punishment of those who ordered this irregular investigation, there is a failed system in the prosecution of justice that favors impunity and violates the rights of the victims’ families.
