Claudia Sheinbaum will offer a public apology to relatives of victims of the Rébsamen College

Rébsamen School (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)

More than five years after the collapse of the Rébsamen College, derived from the earthquake of 19-S, the authorities of the three levels of Government will offer a public apology to the families of the victims who lost their lives.

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It will be at 6:00 p.m. this Thursday, February 2, at the Colegio Rébsamen Memorial, located in Alameda Sur, Coyoacán mayor’s office, when the authorities express their regrets for the 26 people, including boys and girls, who They lost their lives.

The names or initials of all those who died will be placed in the space to remember them and keep their memory alive.

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The event will be attended by the head of the capital’s Government, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, the Secretary of Government of Mexico City, Martí Batres; the mayoress of Tlalpan, Alfa González; the mayor of Coyoacán, Giovani Gutiérrez; representatives of the local Attorney General’s Office (FGJ) and the Ministry of Public Education (SEP).

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“The public apology event consists of a solemn act where reference will be made to the human rights violations suffered by the victims and an apology is requested.”

Some parents will also be present, who will give a speech to the attendees, said the lawyer for the relatives of the victims, Noe Franco, for Milenio.

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He indicated that after the ceremony and the pertinent speeches are over, the memorial will be inaugurated to remember those who died during the collapse of the school building that occurred on September 19, 2017.

For her part, the lawyer Fernanda Fuentes, who also represents the parents of the victims, assured for Reforma that the inauguration of the memorial and the public apology represents the “closing of a stage”, in addition that “it implies the recognition of omissions, negligence and corruption.”

“They needed a place that didn’t feel like ruins. They finally wanted to have this place that will be their place to take refuge, to be able to talk with people who are no longer there, it is a place that they feel that they have worked on down to the last detail, ”he added.

Finally, the authorities will take advantage of the space to present the “Safe School” program, which consists of a government digital platform where a map of the capital appears in which all public and private schools are located, which can be consulted ” with a single click”.

When Internet users place their cursor over the desired school, they will be able to see if the institution has the certificate of structural safety, approval of operation, Civil Protection and other basic documents that are required to be considered as safe schools.

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So far, the authorities have arrested Juan Apolinar Torales (2019), one of those responsible for the construction of the work and was found guilty of eventual intentional homicide. Another of them was Juan Mario Velarde Gámez, the other director of the work, who was convicted of the same crime in 2021.

Velarde was sentenced to 208 years in prison and approximately 377,450 pesos for damage repair, it should be remembered that his defense would have managed to reduce his sentence by 70 years.

While the director of the Rébsamen College, Mónica Villegas, was arrested by members belonging to the Investigative Police during the month of May 2019, while she was in a restaurant located in the capital.

The last one linked to the process (December 2022) was Francisco Arturo “N”, responsible for the work of the Rébsamen school, for the crime of homicide by omission, under the scheme of possible fraud.

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