• Shooting: Patrick Crusius' confession: "My goal was to kill as many Mexicans as possible"
  • Texas: Slaughter in a Texas mall: at least 20 dead
  • 20 dead. El Paso tragedy shocks Mexico
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The presence of the head of Mexican diplomacy in El Paso reflects the seriousness with which the López Obrador Government is facing the tragedy that occurred outside the Cielo Vista shopping center. That afternoon, Patrick Crusius , a 21-year-old student, arrived armed a few meters from the border with a single objective, as he said after being arrested by the police, "kill as many Mexicans as possible . "

Finally, he managed to kill eight of them in cold blood and also left another 6 hospitalized "with varying degrees of severity." Some of them have received a very special visit today at the UMC hospital in El Paso: that of Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard , who has revealed his government's plans to get involved in the trial against the terrorist.

"We consider it an act of terrorism , in this case carried out in the territory of the United States, but of terrorism against Mexicans. That is important because Mexico will definitely participate in this process in the trial , now in the investigation, later in the trial, because there are eight Mexicans who lost their lives, "said Ebrard from the Consulate of Mexico in El Paso. Hours before, the chancellor shared a few minutes with the relatives of the victims to whom he transmitted: "That they have the support of the Government of Mexico. We have asked the mayor, and tomorrow we will also do it with the judicial authorities, so that they may surrender bodies as quickly as possible . "

The authorities estimate that at the time of the attack there were up to 3,000 people in the mall . There were few weeks left before the start of the school year and the stores were full of customers, many of them Mexican. As Mauricio Ibarra , a Mexican consul in El Paso, has revealed, most of the victims lived in Mexico and had only crossed the border to "do some shopping." None of them could imagine the fatal outcome.

20 minutes after uploading a manifesto titled The Uncomfortable Truth , in which he denounced "the Hispanic invasion of Texas from the southern border," Crusius arrived in El Paso with a rifle "similar to an AK-47" to execute his perverse plan. Ebrard did not want to stop pointing out his government's concern regarding the controversial use of weapons in the neighboring country: " we are definitely going to present a case against the sale and distribution of weapons , such as the assault weapon that reaped the life of eight Mexicans and of, so far, already 14 Americans, "he said.

Hours earlier, President Donald Trump denounced that racist ideology "has no place in the United States," but, unlike the Mexican government, he avoided relating this crime to the sale of weapons , but to the "disturbed minds" that are radicalized by Internet. In reference to these statements, Ebrard has pointed out that: "we have seen very carefully the position that the president of the United States made today on the facts, and I would like to underline that we recognize and agree with the fact that, in this positioning, racism and white supremacy appear as serious problems in the United States. "

Finally, the head of Mexican diplomacy has reiterated Mexico's willingness to study the extradition request for Patrick Crusius . The ball is now on the roof of Alejandro Gertz , attorney general of the Republic of Mexico, who is already "integrating the investigation folder and will be the first of this importance in Mexico's history of terrorism in the territory of the United States", As highlighted by Ebrard, who insists that: "according to law and International Law , Mexico can participate not only in the representation of the victims", but also, if the prosecutor considers it so, "in the extradition request ".

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