Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat TY Gus Razon
Three months after the attack
suffered by the head of the Secretariat for Citizen Security (SSC), Omar García
Harfuch, in which three people died, the official stressed that the one who
saved his life was the police who he himself directs, because thanks to the
rapid response of the uniformed officers that prevented those responsible from
continuing to shoot. a
“I believe that God saved my
life, of course; but I think also the great response from my colleagues, the
quick response from the police, because if the police don't come, these guys
keep shooting all the time, they had two thousand bullets left. The same police
that I lead, that I have the honor to lead, was who t saved my life, ”he said.
In an interview with Carlos
Loret de Mola, the first to a media outlet after the attack, the secretary
recounted how he experienced the attack.
“That day I left a little
later than normal and, when I am moving forward in the front seat, Edgar was driving,
and Rafael was directly behind me, when we crossed Monte Blanco street, there is a stop that
forces the truck to stop a bit, a three and a half ton white truck crossed, it was not crossed at excessive speed
(…). When it crossed, the first impact on the truck roars” he said.
García Harfuch asserted that
before the first shot, he knew it was an attack against him. When the first
shots rang out, he said, it was a time of much confusion, dust, noise.