The municipal government is not going to do anything against the policeman nor is it going to investigate

The municipal government is not going to do anything against the policeman nor is it going to investigate because there is no complaint.

Published April 25, 2021 (sp)

The Municipal Government is not going to do anything against the policeman who took 10 thousand pesos from foreigners, nor is it going to investigate because there is no complaint.

In the municipality they say that “No” they have information about the incident, “If they go to file their complaint in internal affairs the investigation will be done”.

CONTEXT

As we will recall, last April 15, Enrique and Caterine, a foreign couple who have their home in Dolores Hidalgo and who were visiting San Miguel (they frequently come to San Miguel de Allende where they eat, spend time with friends and go for walks), were bothered by a young member of the municipal police, who took $10,000 pesos from them under the pretext that when they passed by him in his car, “he smelled marijuana”.

A fact that angered, saddened and annoyed them, the affected people went to our media to make a public denunciation of the abuses of this policeman, and in order to alert other tourists (especially foreigners) to be careful and not to be intimidated as it happened to them.

Enrique explained that they decided not to file a complaint with the Public Prosecutor’s Office because they only had a few days left to return to their country, the United States, where they are in the process of exporting their car, as it would take time for them to get a solution.

“We have one more week to be in San Miguel, nadamas and we have to return to California, the reason and the reason is because if I do not lose the deposit of my car at the border, which are almost 400 dollars, if that was not I would stay and go to the police to make a complaint, because I do not know how long they will want to entertain me. I make the complaint to the police, they are going to tell me that they will have to come to testify and I will not be able to because I have to go to California and I cannot miss my appointment because I lose my deposit of my export car when I come here”, said Enrique.

In the municipality they say that nothing is going to be done against the policeman, nor an investigation, because those affected did not go to file a complaint with the corresponding department which is Internal Affairs, because in the media it is not valid, it does not count.