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MEXICO has vowed to sue the United States for failing to protect its citizens after this weekend’s mass shooting in Walmart supermarket in the border city of El Paso.
Furious foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard condemned the shooting as “an act of terrorism” and that his country could launch legal action and demand the extradition of the 21-year-old gunman Patrick Crusius.
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Mr Ebrard said the mass shooting on Saturday at 10.30am local time was “an act of barbarism”.
He said: “The president has instructed me to ensure that Mexico’s indignation translates into efficient, prompt, expeditious and forceful legal actions for Mexico to take a role and demand that conditions are established that protect Mexicans in the United States.
“The fact that Mexicans have lost their lives, forces us to take the corresponding legal actions.”
The Mexican government said seven of its nationals were among the 20 people killed in the shooting, and at least six others were among 26 wounded.
But many of those died or who were injured were American citizens who are of Hispanic origins.
Representative Veronica Escobar, a Democrat who represents El Paso in the US Congress, said: “The shooter came into our community because we are a Hispanic community and because we have immigrants in our community.
“He came here to harm us.”
DEATH PENALTY CALLED FOR
But while Mexico wants to justice to be served in their country, prosecutors in Texas say they will seek the death penalty.
Crusius comes from Allen, a Dallas suburb some 650 miles east of El Paso, which lies along the Rio Grande across the US-Mexico border from Ciudad Juarez.
He posted a four-page manifesto on 8chan, an online message board often used by extremists which has since been pulled.
In his manifesto, titled The Inconvenient Truth and posted on messageboard 8chan, he cited book The Great Replacement, which promotes a theory that whites are being “replaced” by non-whites.
Crusius said he supported the Christchurch shooter, who gunned down 51 Muslims in New Zealand in March, and said his attack was “in response to the Hispanic invasion of Texas”.
He wrote: “I’m simply defending my country from cultural and ethnic replacement brought on by an invasion. I can’t bring myself to kill my fellow Americans.”
He said the US was “rotting from the inside out”, adding that his views “predate Trump and his campaign for president”, despite backing his border wall.
Describing how he’d opted for an AK-47, he casually added: “I realised pretty quickly that this isn’t a great choice… it’s not designed to shoot rounds quickly.”
Following the El Paso mass shooting and another one the same day in Dayton, Ohio, which killed nine more people, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said lone wolf attackers “inspire each other”.
He said: “These attacks are committed by lone wolves but they are at the same time connected, because they use each other as inspiration and they refer to each other in the different manifestos.
“It highlights that we have to fight terrorism in many different ways, with many different tools.”
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