CIUDAD JUÁREZ, Mexico — One week after a deadly fire in a migrant detention heart in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, left 39 folks useless and dozens extra severely injured, some victims’ households and associates are nonetheless in search of solutions about their family members.
The day after the fireplace, Mexican authorities released the names of all 68 men who had been detained on the time, however the record initially didn’t specify who had died, and who was alive and injured.
Abel Manuel Maldonado Pérez, 28, of Venezuela, spent three days crisscrossing town on foot and by taxi to go to hospitals, the general public prosecutor’s workplace and the morgue, looking for solutions about his 26-year-old brother, Orlando.
“Give us info,” he mentioned. “We’re human beings.”
Later that week, the Mexican authorities launched the names of these deceased during a news conference. Orlando’s identify was included.
Regardless of this info, Abel has but to obtain any direct communication from authorities officers, or any particulars on the place his brother’s physique is perhaps discovered. “We wish to see them, maintain them, have them,” he mentioned. “To make certain it’s them.”
Mexican authorities are at present investigating the fireplace as a homicide case. No less than 5 folks have been arrested, together with authorities migration officers, two safety staff and a migrant suspected of beginning the fireplace.
