Mexico's attorney general cites irregularities in investigation of alleged cartel killing site

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's lawyer wide connected Wednesday reported irregularities successful an probe by authorities authorities into an alleged cartel sidesplitting tract and grooming campy astatine a ranch successful the occidental authorities of Jalisco wherever radical searching for relatives recovered hundreds of articles of covering and different idiosyncratic effects.

The ranch successful the municipality of Teuchitlan, extracurricular Guadalajara, was recovered by authorities successful September 2024. Six months later, a alleged hunt corporate recovered charred bony fragments and idiosyncratic items, raising questions astir the archetypal probe by the Jalisco State Prosecutor's Office.

Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero, whose bureau took implicit the probe past week, said that investigators successful Jalisco failed to registry grounds and fingerprints and process vehicles recovered astatine the ranch, 3 of which were aboriginal stolen.

He said section authorities didn’t analyse the ownership of the ranch and failed to scientifically analyse locations astatine the ranch to recognize if they were utilized arsenic crematoriums. Investigators did not apprehension section officials who person been linked to activities astatine the ranch, helium said.

Gertz Manero said national prosecutors were besides not alerted astir the site, arsenic is modular procedure, and formed blasted connected the authorities prosecutor’s bureau contempt the National Guard carrying retired an cognition astatine the tract carried retired past year. There is inactive not capable accusation to corroborate if the ranch was utilized to cremate bodies oregon bid cartel members, helium added.

The Jalisco Search Warriors radical past week shared images that shocked galore successful a state that's agelong accustomed to stark quality of cartel warfare, forced disappearances and authorities corruption. The images and videos showed dozens of shoes, piles of covering and what appeared to beryllium quality bony fragments.

Such collectives person agelong risked their lives to question answers astir what has happened to Mexico’s 120,000 disappeared radical successful the look of rampant impunity.

Vigils took spot implicit the play for the victims of the alleged site.

On Monday, a video was circulated showing masked and heavy equipped men who work a connection identifying themselves arsenic the Jalisco New Generation cartel and questioning the motivations of the searchers.

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