Thursday, January 6, 2011

The police blame on the Mexican U.S. border patrol the death of a teenager

Mexico Police yesterday blamed a border patrol agent of the United States for the death of a 17-year allegedly trying to enter the country illegally. The boy, identified as Ramses Barron, was found dead Wednesday morning near a hospital in the city of Nogales in the Mexican state of Sonora. Three people would have left next to the center.

The body of the victim had a gunshot wound, according to witnesses quoted by police, was shot by a U.S. agent. Barron had been shot while trying to jump the fence that separates the two cities Nogales, one in Sonora and one in Arizona. The spokesman for the U.S. Border Patrol Tucson Sector (Arizona), David Jimarez, acknowledged that there was "an agent involved" in this event, but "details are sketchy." The investigation is carried out by the FBI, which has justified the officer was attacked with stones while trying to arrest a suspected drug traffickers.

Last June, a similar incident occurred in Ciudad Juárez in Mexico drew criticism, then warned of the excessive violence used by security forces that guard the U.S. border.

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