Because of the use of smuggled weapons from the US by criminal groups in Mexico, the Mexican government has sued several gun manufacturers and dealers in the United States. She filed a civil lawsuit in a US federal court in the city of Boston on Wednesday, Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said in a press conference. Among the eleven companies named in it are manufacturers such as Smith & Wesson and also the Austrian company Glock.
Mexico has suffered significant damage, according to a document from the Mexican Foreign Ministry, which the Reuters news agency was able to see. According to the report, the arms manufacturers were aware that their business methods led to illegal arms smuggling into Mexico. The resulting damage is estimated at ten billion dollars.
According to a report by the Mexican Defense Ministry, more than two million firearms were smuggled into Mexico between 2009 and 2019, mostly from neighboring countries. There they usually end up in the hands of criminal groups. According to the latest figures, almost 100 murders a day are recorded in Mexico, where around 126 million people live – in Germany there were 245 in the whole of last year. In addition, more than 90,000 people are considered to have disappeared in the North American country.
Violence in Mexico has exploded since the state began militarily fighting the so-called drug war at the end of 2006. Today, there are numerous powerful drug cartels and other criminal groups that often have ties to corrupt politicians and security forces. Most acts are never cleared up.
The manufacturers ‘ argument that they are not responsible for whose hands their weapons fell is false, Ebrard said. “They even develop models that are aesthetically designed specifically for drug dealers.«
