2023-06-30 00:36:27
San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chis. The governor of Chiapas, Rutilio Escandon Cadenas, He affirmed that the federal and state authorities are working together to try to rescue 16 administrative employees of the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSyPC), kidnapped on Tuesday in the Tuxtla Gutiérrez-Ocozocoautla highway section.
“The Mexican Army, the Navy, the National Guard and the police are going to continue with more intensity until our co-workers appear because they only fulfill their responsibility,” he added through a video recorded during the work of the security table ” .
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He added: “We are all very close. Here is the Mixed Operations Base (BOM), the Prosecutor’s Offices and the police. We are very compact in defending the security of the people of Chiapas”.
Escandón Cadenas pointed out that “here we work to take care of the stability of the people of Chiapas and that anyone who violates the law, anyone who commits a criminal act will not go unpunished, we will apply all the rule of law, no one outside the norm, let alone above it.
He reiterated that “in Chiapas, our obligation is to take care of the people, everyone, without any distinction or condition to attend to urgent needs and all others, in what refers to security. Our main task is to keep the people of Chiapas calm.”
He asked the population “to walk the path of justice and avoid committing acts that put people’s lives at risk. We jointly call on all the authorities of the three levels of government to the people of Chiapas that we are working and that we will continue like this, that we will not lower our guard, because what we want with all our hearts is that we live in peace, in a calm, in harmony and that objective is only achieved when there is true harmony”.
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Meanwhile, relatives of the 16 SSyPC workers maintain the blockade in the Libramiento Sur of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, in front of the facilities of that unit, as well as a protest in front of the state police checkpoint located in Chiapa de Corzo to demand its location.
With banners they ask that Governor Rutilio Escandón dismiss the officials so that their relatives can return soon. “16 lives are worth more than three jobs,” reads one of them.
They also claim that the state authorities have not provided them with more information.
This has caused serious traffic chaos in Tuxtla Gutiérrez, according to local press reports.
With information from La Jornada
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