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The Puebla Human Rights Commission asks to investigate the police officers who “allowed” the lynching of Daniel Picazo

Five months after the lawyer Daniel Picazo, 31, was lynched in the community of Papatlazolco, integrated in the municipality of Huauchinango, Puebla, the Human Rights Commission of said State has requested that a criminal investigation be carried out and that the action be sanctioned. of the police officers who attended the death of the young man because they “allowed the mob” to end the lawyer’s life without doing anything to prevent it. “The state and municipal public security servers did not act in accordance with the protocol established for the lynchings, there were no attempts to prevent them from being doused with gasoline, or from setting a fire, much less putting it out and protecting the victim,” they have said. this morning at a press conference members of the commission.

For those responsible for the Puebla Human Rights office, once they had seen the videos and finished their reports on what happened, the agents should have “used public force” to dissolve the residents and protect Picazo, as well as help him. to save his life. “They limited themselves to making a few calls,” they have assured, “but not to rescuing the victim and putting her to safety.” Likewise, the Human Rights office has requested that the relatives be registered in the state registry of victims to receive the benefits provided by law.

On the night of Friday, June 10 of this year, the residents of Papatlazolco rang the bells to alert the population, they had captured a young man who was traveling in a white van and they were going to publicly punish him on the community court. Indeed, the crowd gathered, surrounded the boy, tied his hands behind his back and walked him dying between blows. On the field the machetes sounded, they set fire to it and burned it. Someone approached the lawyer and took the documentation from his back pocket: he was an adviser to the Congress of Deputies. The police limited themselves, according to some witnesses who were there, to photographing these credentials. There were dozens of agents, the sirens were on, but no one did anything to save him from a mob that treated him, without any kind of evidence, as a criminal with pretensions to stealing children, one of the fears in those communities, where rumors travel the WhatsApp and turn on the alarms. Later, justice was taken into his hand.

From the outset, the Prosecutor’s Office had audiovisual evidence and first-hand witnesses who recounted what happened there and who was present, including the auxiliary president [alcalde], Epifanio Aranda, and the justice of the peace of the town, who with his club in hand attended the orgy of fire and blood. The police said then that the mob prevented them from acting. It doesn’t look like that in the videos, rather they look like they are escorting the event. This is also now being determined by the Puebla Human Rights Commission, which is asking the Prosecutor’s Office to open an investigation file from which to derive criminal responsibilities and, where appropriate, sanctions for public servants. The local media in Huauchinango assure that some security commanders in the municipality have disappeared after being alerted to the recommendations that the human rights office would make today.

Place where Daniel Picazo Gonzalez was lynched by a group of inhabitants of the town of Papatlazolco, in the State of Puebla, on June 10, 2022.Rodrigo Oropeza

Puebla is one of the states with the highest incidence of lynching. For this reason, Human Rights has recommended that measures and training be strengthened against these acts where the neighbors take the law into their own hands. They ask that “a special group of immediate reaction be formed with sufficient training” to avoid these actions. That the agents be promptly informed of the protocol in force that they must follow and that the number of police officers be increased to prevent lynchings.

For the Human Rights office, the actions of the agents that night are “reprehensible”, “they violated the victim’s human right to public safety and life.” In addition, they criticize the Huauchinango City Hall for not having provided the commission with timely information.

The days after the death of the lawyer Picazo, about a dozen men were arrested for their alleged direct participation in the coven, and the Prosecutor’s Office was able to question direct witnesses of what happened. Voices were soon raised in the town against the agents who were arresting the locals. The relatives accused them of inappropriate behavior when entering the houses and maintained the innocence of the detainees. They regretted what happened, late, but they did not stop dirtying Picazo’s actions with suspicions to save those who ended his life.

Daniel Picazo had gone that Friday to Las Colonias, a town next door, where he was having drinks with a good friend, Sebastian, and walking through some of the reservoirs that dot the area, a beautiful green land with good sun and abundant rain that He is dedicated to planting flowers. In a confusing moment he decided to start his van and got out without saying anything. Both Sebastian and the relatives maintained that the lawyer got lost on the roads and ended up in a town that had nothing to do with him and that those days were full of suspicions and rumors about alleged criminals who stole children. This is how it had spread through WhatsApp messages. It was enough to light the fuse that ended the life of Daniel Picazo.

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