They accuse the Creole of murder with intentional action and injuries, since he would have been the one who started the fire.
A Mexican judge on Tuesday linked three migration officials, a private guard and a Venezuelan migrant to proceedings for last week’s fire at a detention center in the border town of Ciudad Juárez in which 40 migrants died.
In a hearing held in Ciudad Juárez in the state of Chihuahua, the five defendants in the case were “linked to the process,” the Federal Judicial Council announced in a statement.
The agents of the National Institute of Migration (INM), Daniel “N”, Rodolfo “N” and Gloria “N” and the private security guard Alan “N” were charged with the crimes of homicide by intentional omission and injuries.
While a Venezuelan migrant, identified Jaison “N”, faces charges of manslaughter with intentional action and injuries after being accused of having started the fire.
The federal judge granted a month for the complementary investigation.
Last week arrest warrants were issued against six people, only five of whom have been detained.
Video images from a security camera inside the Ciudad Juárez facility showed guards walking away as a fire started in the cell where dozens of migrants were being held, without making the slightest attempt to release them.
It is unknown if those guards had the keys to the cell.
The deadly fire generated a strong reaction from the Vice Minister of Diaspora and Human Mobility of El Salvador, Cindy Portal, who described the event as a “State crime” and demanded the dismissal of the head of the National Institute of Migration of Mexico.
“El Salvador demands a sentence for this crime that classifies it as a State crime,” Portal said on Monday from Ciudad Juárez, where he traveled to process the repatriation of the seven Salvadorans who died in the fire and to provide support to the wounded and their families. relatives.
The Secretary of Security and Citizen Protection announced the day before that the death toll from the fire that occurred on March 27 rose to 40 after the death of one of the 28 injured, who died during the air transfer from Ciudad Juárez to the National Center for Investigation and Care for Burns in Mexico City.
The authorities did not report the identity or nationality of the deceased or when he died.
Most of the victims of the fire were from Guatemala, Venezuela, Honduras and El Salvador.
Of the total number of injured, 23 remain hospitalized in health centers in Ciudad Juárez and Mexico City.
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