Francisco Garduño, Mexico’s top immigration official, will face charges in a fire that killed dozens of migrants at a detention center in Ciudad Juarez.
Anger initially focused on two guards who were seen fleeing the March 27 fire, without unlocking the cell door to allow the migrants to escape. But President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said earlier Tuesday that they didn’t have the keys.
Prosecutors said that after a fire at another detention center in the Gulf coast state of Tabasco killed one person and injured 14 in 2020, theknew there were problems which needed to be corrected. but alleged they failed to act. It was unclear what effect López Obrador’s comments might have on the trial of the guards, who were detained previously over the fire."The door was closed, because the person who had the keys wasn’t there," López Obrador said.
Three Mexican immigration officials, a guard and a Venezuelan migrant are being held for investigation in connection withThe migrant allegedly set fire to foam mattresses at the detention center to protest what he apparently thought were plans to move or deport the migrants.
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