Five police officers arrested for disappearing a former mayor in Mexico

Authorities mexican They arrested five policemen on Tuesday for being the alleged perpetrators of the forced disappearance of a former mayor and current civil servant of Veracruz, state of the Gulf of Mexico.

These are police agents from the municipality of Álamo, in the north of the state, who are accused of the disappearance of Cresencio Vera Vidal, who served as director of the Veracruz State Water Commission (CAEV) in the municipality of Cazones. when the event occurred last March.

The State Attorney General’s Office detailed that they executed arrest warrants against Alfonso “N”, Gilberto “N”, Noé “N”, Francisco “N” and Santiago “N”, who served as active elements of the Municipal Police.

The officers were transferred to the Pacho Viejo penitentiary, one of the main in the state, where a judge will determine their legal status.

Vera Vidal was reported missing since March 17 of this year and her children had managed to get the UN Committee Against Forced Disappearance to issue an “urgent action” on behalf of the official.

Faced with the omission and inaction of local and state authorities, they turned to international bodies to demand the search for Cresencio.

For this reason, the UN Committee Against Forced Disappearance issued “urgent action” 1014/2021 addressed to the Mexican State on behalf of the disappeared, notified in the first days of April.

The disappearance of the former mayor and the participation of the Police illustrate the crisis of disappearances and human rights that the Mexican Government itself has recognized.

The Ministry of the Interior (Segob) counts more than 95,000 missing persons and admitted that there are 52,000 unidentified bodies in mass graves and in state morgues.

Of this total, about 20,000 disappearances have occurred so far in the term of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who assumed the Presidency in December 2018.

In addition, the current governor of Veracruz, the ruling party Cuitláhuac García, faces accusations from deputies and senators of his own party, the National Regeneration Movement (Morena), for the abuse of authority and the violence that prevails in the state.