Indiginous Women Wrongly Jailed Will Get an Apology from Attorney General Mexico News Daily
go to original February 17, 2017

The three indigenous women jailed for kidnapping (El Universal)

Eleven years after three indigenous women were wrongly jailed for kidnapping six federal agents, the federal Attorney General’s office (PGR) has announced it will offer them a formal and public apology.

On March 26, 2006, Jacinta Francisco, Alberta Alcántara and Teresa González were selling goods at an open-air market in Santiago Mexquititlán, Querétaro, when six agents of the now-dissolved Federal Investigation Agency (AFI) seized their goods and those of other merchants, charging they were pirated.

But when the merchants demanded that the agents show their identification badges and documentation the agents opted instead to leave town after agreeing with the merchants they would compensate them for any damages.

Five months later, the three women were arrested and paraded before before media outlets: they were being charged with kidnapping the six AFI agents, who claimed they had been held hostage by the three and other vendors at the market.

The apology will be offered at a public ceremony on February 21.

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