Mexico CITY (AP) – Two men were arrested in the west of Mexico for their alleged relationship with the murder of an activist who was part of a group of search engines for missing persons who unleashed a scandal in the country after the discovery of numerous calcined bone remains and clothing in a farm that was handled by the powerful Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).
The arrests were announced on Thursday by the Prosecutor’s Office of the Western state of Jalisco that indicated in a statement that Juan Manuel “N” and José Luis “N” were captured for their probable responsibility in the armed attack that occurred in the middle of last week in the town of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga where activist María del Carmen Morales and one of their children died.
Morales and his son Jaime Daniel Ramírez were intercepted on the night of April 23 by two men who moved on a motorcycle. One of the aggressors shot at the victims and then fled in the unit.
Hours after the murder, the State Prosecutor reported that Morales died when defending his son, but local human rights activists and organizations rejected that version claiming that an exhaustive investigation of the case was not conducted.
The two detainees are linked to at least 10 murders and multiple serious crimes, the Public Ministry reported.
After the disappearance in February last year of one of his children, Molars joined the group of search engines of missing people Guerrero seekers of Jalisco who last March denounced the discovery of numerous bone remains and hundreds of clothing in the “Rancho Izaguirre” of the Teuchitlán municipality, state of Jalisco, where six months before the National Guard and the State Prosecutor They advanced for many months.
The case unleashed a strong controversy that exposed the failures and omissions of the authorities to advance the searches of missing people who have hit Mexico for years.
On April 2 he also died in Jalisco Teresa González, 53, after being shot days before at home. Since last September, González was looking for his missing brother and joined the Luz de Esperanza collective. In his case, the State Prosecutor’s Office ruled out that the homicide was related to his work as a search engine of missing and said in a statement that the “line of investigation indicates that the mobile of the attack would have been the theft of money.”
