Sheinbaum says there have already been arrest warrants against soldiers who killed migrants

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Tuesday that arrest warrants had already been issued against the members of the Army who shot and killed six migrants in Chiapas, a state on the country’s southern border, on October 1.

“There is no impunity, there has already been an arrest warrant for the elements that fired,” the president said during her morning press conference.

The Mexican leader assured that “everything necessary” is being done to ensure that an incident like this “does not happen again.”

He recalled that “whoever needs to be punished” will be criminally sanctioned in accordance with the investigations of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR).

The massacre occurred on the first day of the new Mexican president’s term in the state of Chiapas, amid the deployment by the government of former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (2018-2024) of 36,000 soldiers for immigration tasks.

According to the Mexican Army itself, the soldiers involved, now at the disposal of the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), were patrolling in the midst of the struggle between drug cartels to control the flow of people and drugs from the border between Mexico and Central America and mistook the migrants for criminals.

According to initial reports, the soldiers mistook the migrants for criminals.

The events occurred after the Armed Forces played an increasing role during the six-year term of former President López Obrador.

Last Wednesday, the Peruvian Foreign Ministry confirmed that one of the deceased in the incident was from that country and therefore “strongly” condemned the events that occurred.

The rest of those killed were from Egypt and El Salvador.