A violent riot in a center of Penitentiary of Tuxpan, north of, left seven dead prisoners and other eleven people wounded on Saturday night, has the Secretariat of State Public Security. The riot occurred at the Tuxpan Social Readaptation Center, where the inmates protested extortion and aggressions inside the prison at the hands of the criminal group called Shadow.
The local government has reported that until that jail they were transferred officials of the Ministry of National Defense, the National Guard and members of the State Human Rights Commission for the objective of restoring order. “The injured personnel are being attended by elements of the State Police and the Mexican Red Cross,” authorities said.
The prisoners faced and set fire to the interior and exterior of the penitentiary, whose control was under his command for more than twelve hours, EFE reports. Several videos published on social networks show several men demanding the prison authorities the presence of human rights activists and the press in the premises. In the videos denunciations the extortion that the inmates suffer by members of the Shadow Group, whom they pointed out of being behind the aggressions.
The authorities managed to resume control of the Readaptation Center, the Ministry of Public Security (SSP) reported. “This morning, around 09:00 hours, a coordinated operation was carried out at the Tuxpan Social Reinsertion Center (Cereso) that allowed the restoration of the total order and recover the control of the facilities after the disturbances registered this Saturday. The fires caused by the burning of various objects to the interior were completely extinguished. installed in the Cereso de Pánuco, without news so far, ”said the SSP in a statement.
Veracruz is one of Mexico’s most violent states. The riot occurs days after Tuxpan attacks a taxi driver, who survived the assault. The hitman, however, pretended to be a relative and entered the next day to hospital emergencies to finish it. His father, a fellow ex officio and who accompanied him at the IMSS Welfare clinic, filed the attack and died. The taxi driver who was the goal, was injured, but came out alive. In mid -July the entire country was moved by the kidnapping of, also a retired taxi driver and teacher, for refusing to pay the quotas it demands. His body was found last week and his history put face to the horror stage that carriers in the region live, in a context of extortion, threats and murders.
