Mexico’s top prosecutor investigates the so-called cartel killing location, bones, shoes found: “The truth will come out”

The Mexican Attorney General reported the violation Wednesday during a state authorities’ investigation into a suspected cartel killing site and training camp on a ranch in the western Jalisco state. Looking for relatives Bones and hundreds of clothes and other personal effects were found.

Some local media called it a “terror ranch” and authorities were called in September 2024 in the town of Teuchitlan outside Guadalajara. Six months later, a so-called search group was discovered Burnt bone fragments and personal itemsraised questions about the original investigation by the Jalisco State Attorney’s Office.

Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero, who took over the investigation last week, said investigators in Jalisco failed to register evidence, fingerprints and process vehicles found on the ranch, three of whom were later stolen.

He said local authorities did not investigate ownership of the ranch and failed to scientifically analyze the location of the ranch to see if they were used as crematoriums. He said investigators did not arrest local officials related to ranch activities.

Gertz Manero said in a press conference that broad evidence means that the “truth” of the horrific discovery of a ranch in Jalisco in the West will emerge.

The UN Human Rights Office last week called for a “thorough, independent, impartial and transparent investigation” of obvious crimes.

Gertz Manero said that despite an action at the site last year, federal prosecutors did not alert the site like standard procedures and blamed the state attorney’s office. He added that there is still not enough information to confirm whether the ranch was used to cremate the bodies or train cartel members.

Last week, the Jalisco State Search Warriors shared images that shocked a lot of news that had long been accustomed to the cartel war, forced disappearances and government corruption. These images and videos show dozens of shoes, a bunch of clothes and what appears to be fragments of human bones.

These collectives have long risked their lives to seek answers about what happened to Mexico’s 120,000 missing people under rampant impunity.

Vigil and protest On weekends, the victims of the alleged location.

Monday, Videos are distributed Showing masked and armed men, they read a statement identifying themselves as Jalisco’s new generation cartel and questioning the searchers’ motivations.

Jalisco Cartel is one of the eight Latin American criminal organizations under the U.S. government Designated foreign terrorist organization last month.

Several mass graves have been found in Mexico in recent months. At least in January 56 corpses were found In the unmarked mass graves of northern Mexico, not far from the U.S. border.

one Popular graves Dozens of bags of dismembered body parts contained the remains of 24 people were found in the suburbs of Guadalajara last December. In the same month, Mexican authorities said they took back the 31 corpse From Chipas, a country plagued by cartel violence.

A collective search for missing persons It says drug trafficking cartels and other organized criminal gangs sometimes use ovens to incinerate their victims without leaving any trace.

France-Pars-Pars contributed to this report.