"The police say they killed my daughter by mistake '"

San Luis Potosi.- Just turned 18 Alondra handled his voter registration card, was eager to be of age.

But he no longer reached to pick up; It was shot by bullets fired by four state police of San Luis Potosi, who allegedly "mistook" the van that was walking with her ​​boyfriend with a killer they were looking for .

"State police say they killed my daughter 'by mistake'" SanJuana Child hurt in the hall of the house number 18 in the Cuauhtémoc street, in the county seat. In his hands he holds the image of the girl who was shown at the funeral.

A dozen candles light up the place; On the walls are photographs of Alondra, a picture of the Virgin of Guadalupe, a large crucifix and the figure of St. Jude Thaddeus.

"Here we had and the novena was , " says his mother.

After the novena of prayers, according to Catholic tradition, SanJuana and five children who survived went to the cemetery, located two blocks from home, take a cross with a wreath to the grave of the youngest in the family.

Alondra was in the fourth semester at the College of Bachelors (Cobach) 02 located in the municipality of Villa de Hidalgo, which came after an hour truck ride; He led the Missionary Youth Movement in Action Youth Ministry in the municipality of San Luis Altiplano; one of the many aspirations of the young was to be a veterinarian.

The evening of 29 May, Alondra left home at 8 at night to do a task with a friend in a nearby internet cafe home, then attended a community dance in the light.

Returning with her ​​boyfriend, a friend and another boy, aged 18 and 17 years of age, state police followed them from the main square of Villa de Arista and rafaguearon the vehicle where they moved "not to answer a call high".

The student received two bullets that killed and injured her boyfriend Diego, who was driving the van in Villa de Arista Moctezuma-road, less than a kilometer away from the community of Matanzas, where it originated.

The State Attorney General, Federico Garza Herrera, revealed that the police made ​​17 shots gun to the truck where he was Alondra and which coincided with the characteristics of a vehicle involved in a crime.

undignified attack

In this town of 15,000 inhabitants, located 97 kilometers from the city of San Luis Potosi, the attack caused the indignation of the people and the protest leaders, students and parents on campus studying the victim.

The protesters are demanding justice for the murder of the young and the intervention of the State Commission of Human Rights (ECHR) in the case.

The parents of the victim formalized a complaint with the ECHR by the death of his daughter and the treatment they received from the state authority, denying them information and handed the girl 's body 28 hours after the events. In addition, the family feels intimidated by state police, who have been around since the funeral home, the state ombudsman, Jorge Vega Arroyo said.

Human Rights issued precautionary measures to the Ministry of Public Security of the state measures to stop the harassment and ensure the security and integrity of the relatives of the victim.

Child sanjuana know the place where was the body of his daughter for 21 hours, and why the Public Ministry conducted the identification parade 24 hours after death and gave it until the early hours of May 31.

" It was an ordeal to give the body [Alondra] by indolence and insensitivity of the authorities , " said his son Luis Fernando Niño.

"I have no idea what has happened to the wreckage, where he has been all this time, we never made ​​it clear where he was. The municipal coroner said that upon receipt had spent between 16 and 18 hours of death; had two hits, one of R-15 and another AK-47 in the middle back that atrophied lungs , "he described the brother of Alondra.

Sanjuana Child and her son complain about the bad and no information of the public prosecutor 's offices in the communities of Villa de Arista, Moctezuma, Venado and the Deputy Justice of Matehuala.

The mother refuses to accept that the police have killed her daughter by a confusion and requires the governor Juan Manuel Carreras clarify the fact and punish those responsible agents. He is not convinced the actions of the Ministry of Public Security says, "is responsible for the actions of its police."

"I do not think they (the soldiers) have the power to shoot any vehicle Nomás a mistake and now they say, 'Woe is me wrong !, equals your truck' and now , " says the mother of a family .

Regrets the lack of information from the Attorney General about the facts that have not even released the names of the officers involved.

"Well, they say the police said that it had been a mistake, because they were following a murderer who brought equal to the carrying truck Diego, Alondra's boyfriend. But then they said the vehicle had sought foreign plates and Mexican Diego has them, "he explains.

The facts

On 7 June, the criminal court based in Matehuala issued detention order against the elements of the state police identified as Celestino "N", Waldemar "N" John "N" and Hugo "N" for the crime of aggravated homicide against Alondra.

The official version of the event does not correspond to reality because the prosecution states that the attack occurred around 21:00 pm Sunday to 29; his mother says that at that time his daughter was in a dance, which soon returned, rummaged around the main square. She spoke to 23:30 on his cell phone and asked to return home.

That night Alondra and his friends went to a dance at the community La Luz, but as they did not like the atmosphere returned to Villa de Arista, where they began to walk around the main square.

"I mark as about 11 and a half at night so already come and told me that in a moment came, who went with her ​​boyfriend, who were going to leave. But for this, 20 minutes later he returned to score and no longer had any response, and sent me straight to his cell phone mailbox "explains the mother.

Diego's boyfriend Alondra explained to the relatives of the girl that night when they came through the square, the garden, the began to chase the police, "and he grabbed road to the side of his ranch Matanzas, heading municipality of Moctezuma, because he says he felt it was safe to go to where his family was close. "

On the way a patrol caught up with them over the side. The police realized they were young and made ​​them shots, causing Diego lost control and will clog your Ram truck double cabin when Romario and about 800 meters to reach home. At that time the rafaguearon.

The boy heard three series of shots and Alondra told her she was wound; he realized he had an arm injury. "He says he did not stop because he felt very afraid that they followed , " says SanJuana.

The Secretary of Public Security (SSP) State, Arturo Gutiérrez García, said that "the elements of the state police (processed) contravened the law establishing the principles of the use of public force and did not use their weapons in proportion, professional, timely and rationally to address the situation in which they found themselves , causing the unfortunate death of Alondra ".

"It was a confusion"

According to the official part, about 21:00 pm that Sunday to the authority it was reported that a man had died five injuries. The subject was identified by the PGJE as Martin, 45, of Arista community. Derived from that incident, members of the State Ministerial Police (PME) initiated investigations in coordination with the state police, to have the characteristics of the alleged killer and gray Dodge Ram pickup truck in which he fled.

"Being in the device search, state police detected a vehicle with four people on board, two women and two men, who had the characteristics of the reported and therefore tried to reach him and marked the high through visual and auditory signals, but the driver ignored and printed faster the unit on Montezuma-Villa de Arista road , "explained the PGJE.

The police declared that "the correspondence on some characteristics of the unit and continue the chase for more than 10 minutes, fired several shots to stop their journey, until the driver stopped running."

Then they realized that there were two people injured, so they were transferred to medical care; on the way to hospital died Alondra, said the prosecution.

Nine days after the shooting, the Operations Coordinator of the SSP, Miguel Angel Adrian Trujillo, was removed to the omissions and failures committed by the police in the events in which the student died.

A family of Alondra has not been provided support by the Center for Victims of Crime that offered the governor and even supported them with funeral expenses.