The Mexico City Police announced that, between December and January, it has managed to capture several people linked to cells dedicated to the theft of wiring from the Mexican capital’s subway system.
Although the chief of the capital’s police, Omar García Harfuch, did not elaborate on the details of those arrested, he did specify that none of them is a worker of the Sistema de Transporte Colectivo, the company that manages the city’s subway system.
«We have no record that it has been by Metro workers, the detainees have not been workers,» García Harfuch stressed, according to the Mexican newspaper ‘El Universal’.
According to García Harfuch, the cable thefts ranged from more sophisticated operations to sporadic thefts, thus ruling out the existence of any dedicated criminal organization specifically prepared for this purpose.
The Mexico City police chief stressed that some of the arrests were made by the National Guard, present in the metro network since the end of last year on the orders of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, in an attempt to put an end to a series of «out-of-the-ordinary» events that occurred at that time.
As reported by Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum in mid-December, the National Guard will guard the capital’s metro system for several months in response to «out of the ordinary» incidents.
The most serious of these took place in early December, with an accident that left one dead and more than 50 people injured, but in recent days there have been all kinds of incidents on different lines, including a fire in a carriage.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
