Leon, Guanajuato.- On the afternoon of Friday, May 06, 2022, the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR), presented the necessary evidence to be linked to the process, to the second element of the National Guard who was arrested for having shot four young students from the University of Guanajuato (UG), They were traveling in a van on April 27, in the community of The Copal, in Irapuato, Guanajuato when an armed attack took place in which the death of 19-year-old Ángel Yael Ignacio Rangel and serious injuries to 22-year-old Edith Alejandra Carrillo Franco were recorded.
On Friday, May 6, a hearing was held at the Federal Judiciary sharp at five in the afternoon and ended at seven with 15 minutes, the parents of Ángel Yael, Norma Lucía Rangel and Gerardo Campos, were accompanied by legal advisers from UG.
The Facts, April 27, 2022:
Four students enjoyed a party in the El Copal community, in Irapuato, Guanajuato, this place has been known for decades by Guanajuato residents as “University Territory”, This is because it is close to the Division of Life Sciences of the University of Guanajuato (UG), For this reason, dozens of foreign students rent apartments or houses near their university, years ago, it was common to see the streets of the community being walked by students at any time of the day.
What happened on Wednesday, April 27? During the afternoon, four students were traveling on board a truck, they had left a gathering that was held near the UG faculty, they were walking along the main street of the Ex Hacienda in the community of El Copal, one of the main roads, On the way, the students were attacked with bullets by members of the National Guard.
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The affected: Ángel Yael, 19 years old, died, Edith Carrillo, 22 years old, was injured in the arm, she is under observation and recovering in the High Specialty Medical Unit T1 of the Mexican Institute of Social Securityin León, Eduardo Ramírez, 19 years old, and one more student who prefers to keep his identity for security reasons, Eduardo and the other student who reserves his data, were also affected by the attack.
Around half past seven in the afternoon of April 27, the attack was already being discussed among neighbors, emergency and security forces had already arrived in the area. Unofficially, neighbors condemned the event on social networks, accusing a National Guard agent of having shot at the young people, and although there was still no official position, in El Copal it was already known what happened because it is a very small community.
One of the first unofficial versions indicated that the National Guard had asked the young people to stop the truck in which they were traveling and by not doing so, the agent of the national corporation fired at them.
Minutes later, the University of Guanajuato released on its social networks the official statement about what happened on April 27:
The governor of Guanajuato, Diego Sinhue Rodríguez Vallejo, lamented the murder of the young student through social networks:
Former Mexican President Vicente Fox, a resident of the state of Guanajuato, also condemned the assassination:
The Attorney General of Guanajuato publicly announced the start of the investigation into what happened:
Rector of the University of Guanajuato asked for justice:
“There were twelve students who were living together and particularly four were attacked. No, no (they had weapons), in no way. From the information that we have at this time, there was no reason for them to be attacked, the security structure is there to provide security, not to kill our university community,” commented the rector of the UG.
The Guanajuato Human Rights Ombudsman announced through Vicente Esqueda, attorney of the entity, that a complaint was opened ex officio for the clarification of the facts:
April 28, 2022:
The Attorney General of Guanajuatoreported that he received the disposition of the element of the National Guard that allegedly shot Ángel Yael, a student of the degree in agronomy of the UG, as they announced through social networks.
The National Guard lamented the murder of the student Ángel Yael and argued that the agent who shot did so out of “confusion” because they were attending a huachicol operation near the area.
“Personnel of the National Guard observed two vehicles parked on a dirt road without being able to identify their occupants, who upon perceiving their presence proceeded to withdraw from the place in a hasty manner, a reason that caused confusion and uncertainty among the members of this police institute, As a result of the foregoing, an element of the National Guard got out of the vehicle in which he was being transported and unilaterally fired his weapon against the vans that were leaving the scene, resulting in one person being killed and another injured,” The National Guard said in a statement.
Demonstration of students in Guanajuato, capital:
During the afternoon of April 28, 2022, hundreds of students from various careers at the University of Guanajuato demonstrated in the rectory of Guanajuato, the capital, to demand clarification of the facts in the case of the death of Ángel Yael. The march was led by the Rector of the UG, Luis Felipe Guerrero Agripino.
In the protest and petition for justice, students shouted: “Ángel Yael did not die, the National Guard killed him”, UG students expressed.
On April 28 the “Office in Mexico of the High Commissioner of the United Nations Organization for Human Rights”spoke before the murder of the university student:
April 29, 2022:
The National Human Rights Commission (CNDH)raised the complaint file CNDH/2/2022/3962/Q for the death of Ángel Yael and the attack on Edith Carrillo:
Relatives and friends of Ángel Yael say goodbye with emotional messages on social networks, they also give the last accompaniment to loved ones of the student in the “Los Olivos” pantheon, located south of Irapuato, Guanajuato. With tears and broken voice those present said goodbye to the body in the cemetery, singing: “Happy Boy.”
In social networks, his friends asked the attendees: “We thank you very much if you do NOT wear black and if you could wear cowboy or charro”published Paulina Carrillo, a friend of Yael as well as relatives who also replicated the message via social networks.
April 30, 2022:
The student community and society in general were surprised by the official announcement that was made on April 30 in which the decision was made that the element of the National Guard that had been detained had already been released by order of a federal judge. The rector of the University of Guanajuato, Luis Felipe Guerrero Agripino, stated that he did not agree with the decision.
The University of Guanajuato gave its official position:
May 02, 2022:
the president of Mexico Andrés Manuel López Obrador, reported early on Monday, in his traditional morning national conference, that not a single element had participated in the attack, but two, for which reason it ordered the GN to make the accused available to the corresponding authorities.
The national executive sent condolences to the family of Ángel Yael and assured that in his government “there will be no impunity”, it also reported that various tests were carried out on the GN element that they initially detained, among the results obtained, confirmed that the ballistics test did not match the weapon that killed the agronomy student from Guanajuato.
But still, AMLO He stressed that in the same way the first agent arrested had fired, but that it was another element who opened fire against the student, as he mentioned in his conference, he commented that the second agent involved had already been arrested.
This day the University of Guanajuato summoned the high school and faculties of its educational system, to demonstrate peacefully on May 3, this was the official statement that was published:
May 03, 2022:
In León and Guanajuato capital, peaceful marches were held on May 3, as a protest for the release of the alleged murderer of Ángel Yael. The steps of the University of Guanajuato in the capital were painted red to simulate the spilled blood of the student, the participants in the march dressed in white, hundreds of students arrived in the capital from Leon, Celaya, Irapuato and Salvatierrabut not only “The Bees”, as UG students are known, participated.
Also students of the Technological Institute of Celaya, the University of Guadalajara, the University of La Salle Bajío, the Ibero-American University, among others.
The mother of the student Ángel Yael moved hundreds of people with an emotional speech addressed to the students: “From heaven my son will be supporting you. Justice is not shouted for, justice must be learned to ask for it, you are students, you are prepared people, successful people who are going to go very far, you have to use the opposite strategy, you have to know how to ask for things, thank you for your participation, God bless you and from heaven my son will be supporting you”, expressed Norma Lucía Rangel, mother of Ángel Yael.
May 05, 2022:
UG student Edith Carrillo is currently recovering at the Mexican Institute of Social Security in León, at the High Specialty Medical Unit (UMAE) Number 1, after having undergone surgery on May 5.
“The surgery performed was a reconstruction of the scapula and proximal humerus, with collation of special plates and bone graft,” reported the Delegation in Guanajuato of the Mexican Institute of Social Security.
May 06, 2022:
The element of the National Guard accused of shooting Ángel Yael, was already linked to the process for homicide and qualified injuries, as ruled the federal judge Efraín Frauste Pérez, who also determined the term of two more months, so that investigations are carried out in the case.
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After a second hearing, the federal judge ruled that if there was sufficient evidence to continue the investigation against the GN member, who previously belonged to the MARINE. The judge indicated that the process can continue for the crimes of homicide and aggravated injuries, but not for attempted homicide, because a bullet was the one that killed Ángel Yael and injured Edith Carrillo, so the same bullet could hardly hurt the other two students.
The former marine was detained in the PEnal de Puentecillas but was relocated to the Federal Center for Social Readaptation Number 12 “CPS Guanajuato”which is a maximum security Mexican federal prison located in the municipality of Ocampothis because he communicated to his private lawyers that he feared for his safety, as he was sharing space with criminals who were presumed to belong to criminal cartelsas well as they were also dedicated at the time to the huachicol, for which the GN element felt threatened, since it previously operated against the huachicoleo and had participated in several arrests of people, for which he asked to be transferred, the lawyers alleged this in his defense and the element is already linked to the process in Ocampo, Guanajuato.
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