Part of the LeBarón family sues the Juárez cartel for the massacre of their loved ones

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(CNN Spanish) - The legal representatives of several members of the LeBarón family, including Rhonita LeBarón's widower, Howard Miller, and Christina Marie Langford's widower, Tyler Edward Johnson, filed a lawsuit in the United States against the cartel of Juárez, appears in a court of the state of North Dakota.

The plaintiffs accuse that criminal organization of being responsible for the November 2019 massacre against the LeBaróns in northern Mexico, in which nine family members died, including six children.

According to the legal document, the Juárez cartel allegedly carried out that attack against the LeBaróns in retaliation for public criticism it made in the past about the criminal activity of that organization.

The civil lawsuit, filed on July 23, requires a minimum of US $ 75,000 as compensation for the murders. According to the legal filing, Mexican prosecutors have identified more than 40 suspects in the attack and have also arrested and charged nine members of the Juárez cartel.

The LeBarón family belongs to a Mormon group established in Bavispe in the Mexican border state of Sonora. Authorities said three cars in which the family's women, children and babies were traveling were on their way to the Mexican state of Chihuahua on November 4, 2019, when they were ambushed by a group of men with high-caliber weapons, who murdered three women and six children, including 8-month-old twins.

"The attacks of November 4, 2019 were the last and perhaps the most ruthless in the decades-long struggle of the Juárez cartel to intimidate the civilian population and influence the Mexican government and local governments to not act," says the document filed with the court.

And he adds that "the members of the LeBarón de Chihuahua family have been vocal, public critics of the Juárez cartel and have organized marches and demonstrations against the cartel."

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