“Why your voice is shaking”: they released the video of the Mexican army detained at the Mexican border with Guatemala

In a three-and-a-half-minute recording, you can see the moment when elements of the Mexican army are detained by a group of people, after one of them shot at a vehicle in which three original men Guatemalan were traveling and killed one of the crew.

The events took place last Monday at the border of the state of Chiapas with Guatemala, at the military checkpoint located in Motozintla, Chiapas.

The events were reported on the afternoon of March 29, when soldiers from Military Region VII maintained a guard post at a place known as Bacatum.

According to local police reports, the Mexican army had stopped the van that Elvis “N”, 30, was driving. An official source said the A man from Central America pointed a gun at the soldiers, so they shot him dead.

“In a gray Mitsubishi vehicle with Guatemalan license plates, the lifeless body of a man named Elvis ‘N’, 30, of Guatemalan nationality, was found. He was wounded by a projectile from a firearm in the neck and in the chest ”, confirmed the Mexican immigration attorney’s office.

In the clip you can see how the group of people who were holding the soldiers, They record with their cell phones at least 15 soldiers to whom they ask to give their names and information on the regiment to which they belong.

At one point in the video, When one of the military elements came by to give his data for it to be recorded, voices of men were heard pointing to him as the one who shot the Guatemalan and questioning him: “It was him. Why was that? is your voice shaking?? “, listen.

This Tuesday, the Secretary of National Defense, Luis Cresencio Sandoval, during the press conference of the Mexican President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, recounted how the events unfolded and admitted that the soldier had made a mistake in shooting the vehicle.

According to the account of the Secretary of National Defense, the personnel of the The Mexican army was at a checkpoint in Motozintla, Chiapas, when a vehicle with three people on board approached, but did not reach the point where the soldiers were.

“The personnel are on the base, at that moment a vehicle with three people arrives, it does not reach the point where the soldiers are, they are reversing forward,” said the secretary.

Realizing the above, the elements tried to stop them and, SAndoval González admitted that one of the soldiers made a mistake by shooting the vehicle.

“This is a bad deed. One of our elements fires a shot where it wounds one, and unfortunately he loses his life “, remarked the head of SEDENA.

The secretary also explained that at that time the vehicle was insured with both people and the deceased. After that, hours later, a group of about 300 people “in various vehicles” arrived at the scene and attacked the army with batons, as reported; and that’s when they kept 6 soldiers and 17 weapons.

Sandoval González reported during López Obrador’s press conference that elements of the Mexican army had already been released on Tuesday.

“After a negotiation process led by members of the The Guatemalan army and police have reached an agreement that the Mexican soldiers will be handed over “to the authorities of their country, said Col. Rubén Tellez, vZero from the Guatemalan armed forces.

The delivery of the soldiers and their weapons took place at dawn “just at the border”, he explained.

Although initially Tellez indicated that there were seven Mexican soldiers retained, it was established that there were six soldiers who remained in hand.s inhabitants of the Guatemalan village of La Esperanza, in the border municipality of Tacaná.

According to police reports from MexicoOn Monday, the army stopped the truck driven by Elvin Mazariegos, a 30-year-old Guatemalan. An official source said that Mazariegos pointed a gun at the soldiers, so they shot him dead.

Later, the inhabitants of the communities of Guatemala and Mexico They arrived at the scene and arrested the soldiers on the Guatemalan side.

According to Téllez, the authorities of Mexico in the process of liberation, they promised to transfer the body of Mazariegos to Tacaná and to “submit the soldiers involved to Mexican justice”.

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