Sedena Hack Reveals Two Additional Culiacanazo Victims, Civilians, Possibly Killed by Soldiers

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As a result of leaks from the group of hacktivists "Guamacaya", it was discovered that the Attorney General's Office (FGR) is investigating the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena) for the death of two civilians at the hands of alleged soldiers of the Mexican army during the so-called "Culiacanazo" or "Black Thursday" .

Likewise, the FGR reported that there were 11 victims of the "culiacanazo", of which seven were "aggressors", one an element of the National Guard, another who was located aboard a patrol car, and two carpenters who were allegedly shot by Sedena soldiers. The official report of the Mexican Army detailed that there were nine deaths (although at the time the government said there had been eight), among whom were a civilian, a National Guard agent, five alleged criminals, and an inmate of the Aguaruto prison.

The carpenters who were mentioned by the FGR were identified as Nicolás “N” and Jorge Arturo Hernández, and their bodies were left lying next to a pick-up truck, whose photograph was widely disseminated in the national press from the day of the events. The investigation was carried out by the Specialized Unit for the Investigation of Organized Crime of the FGR.

In the investigation folder CI: FED/SEIDO/UEITA-SIN/0000822/2020, cited by the Riodoce media outlet, it was detailed that the authorities of the Specialized Unit for the Investigation of Terrorism, Stockpiling and Arms Trafficking (UEITA), of the FGR's Office of the Special Prosecutor for Organized Crime Investigation, has images from security cameras in the area where the two civilians died.

In these recordings, it was possible to see, according to the investigation, that a man dressed in military clothing fired a firearm towards the place where two young men who were engaged in carpentry were inside a River Cars Wash car wash, located in Enrique Sánchez Alonso Boulevard, in the Tres Ríos Urban Development.

“A subject dressed in military clothing and with a firearm stands on the side of a white vehicle, pointing and activating his weapon towards the ground on the side of the sheepfold vehicle where the subjects in blue and red shirts previously descended,” he indicated. an excerpt from the investigation that referenced a diagram with photographs titled “Incident 2″.

According to the video material held by the UEITA, the man dressed in military clothing shot the young soldiers at 5:54 p.m. on that Thursday, October 17, 2019. “They killed them around 5:30 more or less ”, confirmed another source interviewed by the media founded by the journalist Javier Arturo Valdez Cárdenas.

That fateful afternoon for Culiacan residents Nicolás "N" and Jorge Arturo Hernández had gone to deliver some furniture to the Sinaloa Science Center, but it was when they were returning from the carpentry shop, on Enrique Sánchez Alonso Boulevard, in the Tres Ríos Urban Development, where they ran into one of the multiple confrontations that took place that afternoon between hit men from the Sinaloa Cartel and elements of the army.

“In the video, you can see when the carpenters get out of the truck, when they try to open the railing and when they can't and they throw themselves on the floor. And that's when the soldiers get closer little by little while the gunmen withdraw… they advanced protected by a vehicle. And when they reach the corner of the Burguer is when they shoot the carpenters. They were lying face down and the soldiers shot them about five meters away,” the witness added.

“After that, the soldiers took over the block. The assassins all ran away on foot. Since then things in this piece began to calm down. It is then seen when the soldiers approach the already dead carpenters, and grab them by the hair and lift their heads as if to see them. And that is when they realize that they are workers because tools were in the truck and one of them had a pencil on his ear, "he added.

Within the investigation, the FGR has opened a line of investigation for the events that occurred in the "Car Wash" area, where the two carpenters died, and cited the soldiers involved in the events. According to various FGR documents, at least seven soldiers have been called to testify for the “Culiacanazo”.

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