“El Mijis” dies in a car accident, prosecutors report
Ciudad Victoria.— Pedro César Carrizales Becerra The Mijis he had escaped the stalking of death twice: due to a cancer he suffered and an armed attack, from which he emerged unharmed on February 4, 2019 on the road to Santa Rita, in Villa de Pozos; however, yesterday the Tamaulipas Attorney General’s Office confirmed his death.
Carrizales Becerra was originally from San Luis Potosí; On February 22, he would have turned 43 years old. His passage through state politics was surrounded by controversy, since he practically jumped from the marginal groups in the neighborhoods of the capital of Potosí to a deputy of the local Congress in the 62nd Legislature.
The Mijis founded the Popular Youth Movement, an organization that sought strategies to support the “gang” kids to reintegrate into society, work that led him to manage support with the PRI and PRD, but it was the PT that nominated him for local deputy .
Several remember him at his protest dressed as he always felt comfortable: with jeans, tennis shoes and a T-shirt, to prove himself the “representative of the gang”, as well as an activist for the decriminalization of abortion and once morest violence once morest women.
El Mijis had been missing since January 31, when he communicated by voice message with his family for the last time. The alert was activated in the states of San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Coahuila and Nuevo León.
Yesterday followingnoon, Miriam Hernández, wife of El Mijis, went to the facilities of the Tamaulipas prosecutor’s office, in Ciudad Victoria, where they confirmed the death of her husband. Later, the relatives of Carrizales Becerra confirmed in a statement the death of the former potosino legislator and asked for understanding not to give statements.
“[Las fiscalías de los cuatro estados] they conclude that [su muerte] stemmed from a car accident. This fact saddens us and we have no words to describe the difficult moment we are going through (…) In this moment of mourning, we would not like to give statements.”
For their part, the prosecutors of San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Coahuila and Nuevo León, in a joint statement, confirmed the death of the former legislator in a car accident that occurred on February 3 in Tamaulipas, heading northeast to southeast on the Nuevo Laredo- Piedras Negras, at kilometer 27 in the direction of Nuevo Laredo. The agencies detailed that Carrizales’s vehicle allegedly “changed its course in an untimely manner, losing directional control of it to leave the road and fall to a slope and catch fire in its entirety.
“The aforementioned expertise likewise concludes that the accident corresponds to a land traffic event, that no entry or exit holes were located that infer that the vehicle might have had an attack by a firearm projectile and that it does not present sinking of deformations by compression, which infers that there was no impact that contributed to the departure of the vehicle from the road.
Both Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller, wife of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, and the Governor of San Luis Potosí, Ricardo Gallardo Cardona (PVEM), separately sent their condolences to the relatives of Pedro Carrizales, following confirming his death.
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