- 25 - private property on Manuel González Street (supra paras. 62 and 63). Members of the municipal police force also detained other individuals who were in the market at the time of the operation.76 At approximately 5.30 p.m. members of the state police force entered the building and detained those who were inside, many of whom were beaten and assaulted by the police, even though they had already been subdued.77 The operation ended at around 5.50 p.m. 78 and resulted in the detention of 84 people inside the building and two in the market.79 66. At about 5.40 p.m., the police began to transfer those who had been detained to the “Santiaguito” Social Rehabilitation Center (hereinafter “CEPRESO”), either as people who had been captured or who were “being held.” When they were arrested, these people were bundled into vans that, in some cases, took them first to the offices of the Texcoco Assistant Attorney General of the PGJEM, and from there to buses that would take them to the prison; while, in other cases, they were transferred directly to the CEPRESO in vans. The transfers were carried out by the judicial police and the state police. 80 A.4 The operation of May 4, 2006 67. According to information in the SCJN judgment, during the evening of May 3, 2006, around 1,815 state police and 628 federal police – some of whom had taken part in that day’s operation – assembled in different points of the municipality of Texcoco.81 That night, a meeting was held attended by different state and federal authorities, including the Governor of the state of Mexico, during which it was decided to use law enforcement personnel to unblock the Texcoco-Lechería highway, liberate the public servants who had been retained, recover the equipment, weapons and patrol cars that had been seized, bring before the authorities those who had been detained in flagrante delicto and “re-establish the rule of law” in San Salvador Atenco. The Governor, the Secretary for Public Security and the National Coordinator of the Public Security Council withdrew “[w]hen it was agreed to use law enforcement personnel.” The specific strategy of the police operation was defined in a second meeting, without the Governor and the Secretary for Public Security, but with the other state and federal authorities and Staff Officers of the Federal Preventive Police and this ended in the early morning hours of May 4, 2006.82 68. As previously mentioned, on May 3, 2006, the protestors had blocked the Texcoco-Lechería highway in two places, one at the entrance to the village of Acuexcómac, and the other at San Salvador Atenco.83 At approximately 6.30 a.m. on May 4, 2006, members of the state and federal 76 Cf. SCJN judgment of February 12, 2009 (evidence file, folios 30708 and 30709). 77 Cf. SCJN judgment of February 12, 2009 (evidence file, folios 30711 and 30712). 78 Cf. SCJN judgment of February 12, 2009 (evidence file, folio 30712). 79 Cf. SCJN judgment of February 12, 2009 (evidence file, folio 30713). 80 Cf. SCJN judgment of February 12, 2009 (evidence file, folios 30714 to 30716). Members of the Special Operations Group also intervened in order to deactivate dangerous artifacts that could explode. Cf. SCJN judgment of February 12, 2009 (evidence file, folios 30721, 30723 and 30724 and 30732). 81 Cf. SCJN judgment of February 12, 2009 (evidence file, folios 30724 to 30727 and 30730). According to statements made by the Governor of the state of Mexico to the SCJN Commission of Inquiry, “[p]ursuant to [his] governing policy, [… he had] given instructions that the operation be conducted abiding strictly by the constitutional framework of the state of Mexico and with absolute respect for human rights. […] On becoming aware of the excesses committed by public servants of the state of Mexico, [he had] immediately instructed the Secretary General for Governance to conduct the corresponding investigations in accordance with the law, and the same instruction was given to the Attorney General of the state of Mexico, so that the corresponding preliminary inquiries could be undertaken.” Brief of the Governor of the state of Mexico in relation to the preliminary report of the SCJN Commission of Inquiry (evidence file, folio 31665). 82 83 Cf. SCJN judgment of February 12, 2009 (evidence file, folio 30734).