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For: The opinion Updated 05 Jan 2023, 15:38 pm EST
Violence in the state of Nuevo León wreaks havoc in the lives of all its inhabitants, as shown in a video that shows how people who provide emergency services experience shootings. In this case it was paramedics who were doing their job when they were caught in the crossfire. The event occurred in the municipality of Salinas Victoria.
On board an ambulance, the paramedics went to help a policeman who was wounded by a bullet, but when they got out of the unit the hail of bullets hung over them, so they to save their lives they went to the ground in a bushy area. One of them asks her partner who else was coming with her, to which he replies: “David.”
The video was presented on the N+ Monterrey news program and is a sample of how difficult it is for public servants in charge of responding to emergencies to carry out their work, since the violence is such that at any moment they can lose their lives due to fires. crusaders, as has happened with dozens of collateral victims.
Official version
Raúl Cantú, mayor of Salinas Victoria, said in a live broadcast on Facebook that what happened that day was due to the fact that Police responded to a report of several people kidnapped inside a ranch. Upon arrival in the area, they requested reinforcements and various corporations from different levels of government responded to the call.
The agents of the different corporations were attacked with bullets by a group of heavily armed civilians. Cantú said that he knows that the Municipal Police “is not up to the task of having these confrontations, but it is to provide security to the citizens.”
The balance of the fray was devastatingbecause the obituaries of the elements killed in the line of duty were published on the Twitter account of the Nuevo León Prosecutor’s Office.
Salinas Victoria recorded the loss of an element of the Municipal Police, Julio César Hernández Hernández; Along with him, three more agents from different state corporations lost their lives: Daniel Alfonso González Gutiérrez, ministerial agent; Jairo Hernández Sánchez and Artemio Reséndiz Hernández, from the Civil Force.
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