Mexico: massacre of migrants, a video nails the overseers

A video circulated through social networks in Mexico, and relaunched by the media including the newspaper El Universal, shows in a practically incontrovertible way that at least two agents of the National Migration Institute (Inm) of Ciudad Juarez, after the outbreak of the fire in a collection center for migrants, they left keeping the exits blocked.

This behavior would have caused the important toll of 39 dead and 29 burned or wounded.

    This would explain why the number of victims is equivalent to the total of 68 people, migrants from Central America and Venezuela, who were in custody.

It also lets us understand why, therefore, in the confusion caused by the flames, none of them managed to save themselves outside.

    The various sources agree on the fact that it was the migrants who started the protest, only that in the justification provided by the Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador it was mentioned that in deciding to start the fire, the group had used some mattresses placed close of the exit, which had prevented their escape and caused the massacre.

    However, in the video of just 32 seconds it can be seen how the migrants were inside the cells from where they began to demonstrate.

Then flames and thick smoke rise from one of them, while someone tries in vain to open one of the blocked gates.