The families of victims of the Plenitud crematorium in Ciudad Juárez, where 386 bodies were found uncremated in June 2025, protested this Saturday outside the State Attorney General’s Office (FGE), following the release on Friday of the establishment’s owner, José Luis A.C.
The affected families went to the FGE’s state offices located on Juan Gabriel Boulevard in this border city to demand justice, exemplary punishments, and guarantees that the case will not be repeated.
They also called for the resignation of the federal prosecutor for the northern zone, Carlos Manuel Salas.
The protesters carried banners with messages demanding answers from state authorities regarding this case.
“The state owes justice to 386 and denies it because it is complicit,” “corrupt,” “justice for the 386,” were among the messages displayed on the banners carried by the families.
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The state attorney general, César Jáuregui Moreno, commented in a press conference that following the release of José Luis A.C., owner of the “Plenitud” crematorium, due to an injunction, they will request two appeals in the case.
In the press conference, he detailed that José Luis A.C. had been detained for crimes related to the crematorium where 386 bodies were found on June 26.
He stated that on the night of February 13, in compliance with the court order, he was released.
The attorney general recalled that, in that same court, a request for an injunction on behalf of this same person had previously been received; however, it was denied because the court considered that the bodies had been piling up for months without proper handling, under unsanitary conditions and in a state of decomposition, which represented a risk to the Juárez community.
“What have we proven? That there were 386 corpses without proper treatment, that they had been in that place not for days, not for months, but for years, under the most unsanitary conditions. And we proved that the families were given funeral urns containing remains that did not belong to their loved ones,” he commented.
The Attorney General explained that the Federal Judge who granted the injunction focused on two issues, namely the verbs that define the crimes, which are “to conceal” and “to preserve.” He argued that these elements did not exist in this case, since the bodies were not hidden.
In this regard, the evidence points to clear intent in the accumulation of the bodies, since the families who paid for the service were not receiving the ashes of their loved ones.
“Faced with such a ruling, there is no option but to fight it, and the Prosecutor’s Office will immediately file two appeals: a review appeal before the judges of the Federal Judiciary, so that they may overturn this injunction and restore things to their current state; and secondly, a complaint appeal before the Judicial Branch’s own oversight bodies so that the judge’s actions may be reviewed,” he stated.
He added that a legal strategy is already being developed regarding this case, and in order not to hinder the proceedings, further details are being withheld. He reaffirmed his commitment to do everything within the institution’s power to guarantee the families and their loved ones access to justice.
Source: eluniversal
