Around 5 pm this Thursdayan intense police mobilization was reported in the east of the city due to a attempted mutiny in the La Pila penitentiary center located in the capital of San Luis Potosí.
Relatives of the inmates who were still outside the prison because it was visiting day, began to broadcast videos in which they claim they recorded firearm detonations.
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Immediately units of the State Civil Guard arrived at the site and have begun to shield the areawhile relatives of the inmates have blocked the sides of federal highway 57 San Luis – Querétaro.
Unofficially It has been pointed out that the mutiny of the inmates derives from the demand for the resignation of the director of the penitentiary center, Arturo Cruz Andrade, who was barely appointed to head the prison in last March after the riot in which two police officers and an inmate lost their lives.
#Last minute �� They report an attempted mutiny in the La Pila prison, San Luis Potosí, there is intense mobilization outside and inside the penitentiary center
pic.twitter.com/AKT3OU6nhc— El Universal San Luis Potosí (@ElUniversal_SLP)
May 3, 2024
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