held with the beneficiaries in August and November of 2011 to agree jointly on the implementation of a “protocol for the investigation of threats toward or attacks on the human rights defenders of the state of Guerrero” (hereinafter the “investigation protocol”) prepared by the Fundación del Consejo General de la Abogacía Española. 11. Regarding the information concerning investigations into the murder of Lorenzo Fernández Ortega and the forced disappearance, torture, and extrajudicial killing of Raúl Lucas Lucía and Manuel Ponce Rosas, the State indicated that it is taking steps with the Federal Police (Policía Federal Ministerial), and that it met with the beneficiaries to inform them of this. 12. The representatives underlined that to date, 18 preliminary inquiries remain open without those responsible having been brought to justice. In regard to the investigations into the murder of Lorenzo Fernández Ortega and the forced disappearance, torture, and extrajudicial killing of Raúl Lucas Lucía and Manuel Ponce Rosas, they expressed concern over the alleged omissions and flaws of those investigations. 13. The Commission assessed positively the progress made in taking the necessary steps toward implementing the investigation protocol. With regard to the investigations carried out by the State, the Commission recalled that independent of the provisional measures, the State has a particular obligation to guarantee the rights of persons in a situation of risk and must move forward with the investigations necessary to shed light on the facts. 14. The Court takes note of the parties’ reports on the presentation of the protocol prepared by Fundación del Consejo de la Abogacía Española and positively assessed the parties’ efforts to reach a consensus regarding the implementation of its recommendations. 15. In addition, with regard to the State’s report that it is investigating the facts alleged by the representatives, the Court reiterates the State’s obligation to investigate the facts as a measure to guarantee the right to life and the right to personal integrity. Nevertheless, within the framework of the instant provisional measures and as it has ruled in other matters,6 it will not consider the effectiveness of the investigations conducted or the State’s alleged negligence in the said investigations, given that this last point does not form part of its purpose. b) Information regarding the beneficiaries’ situation of risk 16. With regard to the situation of the beneficiaries of the provisional measures, the representatives reported, among others, the following threatening and violent facts: a) On June 23, 2009, Margarita Martín Nieves and Santiago Ponce Lola, relatives of Manuel Ponce Rosas, heard gunshots fired by a man from three meters away. Having missed his targets, the attacker chased them in order to shoot at them from closer range. The satellite phone did not work at that time; 6 Cf. Matter of Children Deprived of Liberty in the “Complexo do Tatuapé” of FEBEM. Provisional Measures with regard to Brazil. Order of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights of July 3, 2007, seventeenth considering paragraph, and Matter of Millacura Llaipén et al., supra footnote 2, fifth considering paragraph. 5