Tamaulipas Prosecutor's Office denied that mayor of Ciudad Victoria suffered armed attack

The Tamaulipas Prosecutor's Office announced this Wednesday, April 6, that no evidence was found of the alleged armed attack denounced by Eduardo Abraham Gattás Báez, mayor of Ciudad Victoria, who had denounced the incident on social networks and through criminal channels.

In a statement, the Attorney General's Office of the State (FGE) reported that the experts belonging to the agency ruled out the hypothesis of armed aggression, since they determined that the bullet wounds present in the president's office “were carried out for some time.”

Evidence presented by Gattás on his social networks was also analyzed, who posted a photograph of a bullet impact on one of the metal doors of the place where he was allegedly assaulted.

According to what was stated by the agency, the presence of rust was detected in the place of impact, which led the experts to establish that “the temporality does not correspond to the time of the events referred to in the complaint filed, but to a different event past”, as reported by the FGE.

It was also noted that the door plate, which had been damaged by bullets, was subsequently replaced; likewise, residents of the area denied having witnessed or heard firearm detonations recently.

The interviewees reported that, approximately a month before the president's complaint, a command of armed civilians faced gunfire at a group of state police officers.

“Employees of the premises located there, as well as residents of the area, said they did not know or have any indication that detonations had been heard this weekend in the area, and they only report that about a month ago shots were recorded in the area when State Police were chasing armed civilians”, it was read in the statement.

With regard to the bullet impact reported by Gattás, one of the workers of the building under investigation assured that the service door had already had the hole for a long time, since he had noticed it for more than a month, a period of time that the door had remained unused, “so he does not know the date exact of the events in which the impact on the property could have occurred”.

Eduardo Gattás denounced the events through a video posted on social media on April 5, in which he claimed that an armed attack had been carried out against him, as he exhibited images of bullet wounds on the facade and doors of a building, in addition to exclaiming the following words:

“Friends, this weekend I suffered an attack in my office. There were at least five bullet wounds, so in a moment I will be filing a complaint with state authorities,” said the president.

Later, Gattás went to the FGE to file the complaint, but denied that they were the offices from which he normally dispatched, since they belonged to the Secretariat of Economic Development and Tourism of Ciudad Victoria, where he is sporadically.

In the same way, he denied knowledge of the date and time on which the events had occurred, since he had come to denounce the facts following a recommendation from the Secretary General of Government, Gerardo Peña, who recommended that he file the office with the local prosecutor's office and not the Attorney General's Office, since he expressed his wish so that “this is well investigated”.

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