The Lawyer Normal’s Workplace of the State of Guerrero (FGEGuerrero), the Mexican Military, and the Nationwide Guard of Mexico arrested a former prosecutor on Tuesday for the homicide of Alejandro Arcos Catalán, the municipal president of Chilpancingo de los Bravo, capital of the Mexican state of Guerrero.
An arrest warrant was served for Gérman Reyes for the assassination of Catalán on October 6, 2024. Reyes is a former prosecutor, retired army justice captain, and is a safety chief for Chilpancingo. He has denied his involvement in Catalán’s loss of life and when introduced earlier than the choose on Tuesday afternoon, acknowledged that there was no incriminating proof and that he was not conscious of the crime he was arrested for.
Catalán was murdered days after he took workplace on October 1 and the homicide of Francisco Gonzalo Tapia Gutiérrez, Normal Secretary of the Metropolis Council. He was found decapitated east of Chilpancingo. Omar García Harfuch, Secretary of Safety and Citizen Safety of Mexico, said that Catalán had traveled alone to Petaquillas, a city south of Chilpancingo and identified to be managed by the Los Ardillos, for a personal assembly.
Violence in Chilpancingo is attributed to battle over turf management between the gangs Los Ardillos and Los Tlacos. Guerrero is a state in Mexico that the US State Division has advised American vacationers to keep away from because of the danger of crime and kidnappings.
There have been 1,247 homicide victims through the first two weeks of President Sheinbaum’s authorities. 488 murder deaths have been reported within the first six days with roughly 81.1 murders per day. Political violence is widespread in Mexico with an increase in violence throughout elections and when newly appointed leaders take energy. Gangs additionally target authorities officers for extortion. Nevertheless, President Sheinbaum announced the Nationwide Safety Technique of the Authorities of Mexico, which incorporates the creation of a nationwide intelligence heart, coordination with prosecutors, and the formation of latest police and army forces to fight crime.
Latin American and Caribbean cities have the highest variety of homicides in 40 out of fifty of essentially the most harmful cities globally, together with Mexico which ranked eleventh.
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