Yesterday, an armed attack against municipal police officers in Jerécuaro, Guanajuato, was reported, where two officers identified as Eric and Carlos died; three civilians were also injured in the crossfire, including a minor.
The violent events were recorded by the perpetrators; the video was taken by the driver of a van in which he was traveling with two other subjects; the attackers carried high-caliber weapons that they fired in the direction of the municipal patrol. According to preliminary reports, 100 spent cartridges were found at the scene, which injured and caused the death of the police officers.
So far, the authorities have not pointed to any criminal organization as responsible for the direct attack against the officers.
Although the police officers were already on the ground – possibly injured or dead – one of the civilians armed with all-black tactical equipment warned that one of them was alive, so the driver approached a few meters to finish off his victims, firing his weapons again on several more occasions.
The state is going through one of the worst security crises; security elements are constantly killed in the line of duty without the opportunity to respond to armed attacks.
This incident in Jerécuaro was added to another attack by armed civilians against elements of the State Public Security Forces, which occurred in Uriangato, Guanajuato, where four police officers were killed and two more were seriously injured.
Three months ago, on October 24, in the center of Jerécuaro, the activation of a car bomb was recorded, causing some structural damage and panic among the neighbors, but no mention was made of any victims.
That same day, but a few hours later, another car bomb exploded in the facilities of the Public Security Secretariat of Acámbaro, causing injuries to three officers.
Guanajuato is going through the worst crisis of violence since the previous administration. The state appears to be the most violent compared to the rest of the states, but it also became the region where the most law enforcement officers are killed in the line of duty, without having the response capacity or comparable equipment with which criminal groups operate.
Regarding the attacks that security officers are subjected to, the governor of Guanajuato, Libia García Muñoz Ledo, acknowledged their work and described it as an “unequal war” between local security agencies and organized crime due to the difference in equipment.
“It is a war that we face unequally, that is, they were attacked with automatic long weapons, when we do not have permission to carry those weapons as corporations. It is something that we are already discussing in the National Security Council as well,” she commented.
Until 2022, it was known that various criminal groups had operations in Guanajuato; among them the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel, a group called Unión de León, the Sinaloa Cartel and the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel.
Source: infobae
