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One More Detained in Tierra Blanca Investigation

TIERRA BLANCA, VERACRUZ, 21FEBRERO2016.- Personal de la Unidad de Observación del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos realizó una visita a los padres de los 5 jóvenes desaparecidos en Tierra Blanca para inspeccionar cómo va el caso; al sitio llegaron familiares de otros desaparecidos en la zona para que su problemática se conozca también. FOTO: IVAN SÁNCHEZ /CUARTOSCURO.COM

After assembling sufficient proof, the arrest warrant was carried out against Rubén Pérez Andrade, who identified himself as an active element of the A , making it eight people processed over the case of the five youths who disappeared in the municipality of Tierra Blanca, Veracruz.

The state Prosecutor’s Office, with the support of the National Commission for Security and through the federal police, presented a new report on the progress of the investigation that allowed the arrest of policeman Rubén Pérez Andrade, allegedly involved in the disappearance of they youths.

Under-Secretary of Human Rights of the Interior Secretariat, Roberto Campa Cifrián, in one of his visits to Tierra Blanca to meet the families of the missing youths. Photo: Cuartoscurso

In a meeting carried out in this municipality, the Director of Ministerial Investigation of the Prosecutor’s Office of the state of Veracruz, Rosario Zamora González; the Under-Secretary of Human Rights of the Interior Secretariat, Roberto Campa Cifrián, as well as the General Commissioner of the Federal Police Enrique Galindo Ceballos, informed the family members of the victims of the progress of the investigation and the actions carried out in the search.

The authorities informed that this detention is an additional element in the investigation, of which new new lines of investigation have arisen that have not yet been carried out. Further actions have been carried out in the ranch in the municipality of Tlalixcoyan, with the participation forensic and criminalistic experts of the Scientific Division of the Federal Police.

Roberto Campa Cifrián and Enrique Galindo Ceballos ratified the instruction from Interior Secretary Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong to inform the families of any progress in the investigation, with the firm goal of finding the missing youths and detaining those responsible.