The public accusation made by Jalisco Governor Pablo Lemus that “someone” from the state of Zacatecas orchestrated the illegal transfer of the bodies of six people who were originally executed in the municipality of Pinos—allegedly by an organized crime group—and who the next day “appeared” piled up on a property in the neighboring municipality of Ojuelos, if proven, constitutes a serious violation of the law, as defined in the Federal Penal Code.
In an interview with this newspaper, attorney Iván Casas Figueroa, former deputy delegate of the Attorney General’s Office, Zacatecas Delegation, and former General Coordinator of Prosecutors, assigned to the Specialized Unit for the Investigation of Assault and Vehicle Theft of the Specialized Sub-Attorney General’s Office for the Investigation of Organized Crime (SEIDO), made the complaint.
The Jalisco governor’s statement regarding this illegal act of transporting the bodies of executed people from Zacatecas to Jalisco, “which has already been done on other occasions,” is a very serious accusation, which Casas Figueroa stated should be brought to the attention of the Attorney General’s Office and investigated.
Aggravated by the fact that Rodrigo Reyes Muguerza, Secretary General of the Zacatecas Government, had previously stated on the first day that residents of Pinos reported on social media that six people had been murdered on a local road, David Monreal Ávila’s official stated that he had sent state police to verify the incident, but “they only found some garbage bags scattered around.” However, videos and photographs of the multiple homicide were already circulating on social media.
Casas Figueroa, who was formally a candidate in the Zacatecas legislature in 2023 to replace local prosecutor Francisco Murillo Ruiseco, who resigned, explained that the Federal Penal Code clearly states that those who may have been involved in the incident—the possibility of state police officers being involved has not been ruled out—are punishable by Article 280 of the aforementioned code. It stipulates that “a penalty of five to eight years in prison and a fine of five hundred to one thousand days shall be imposed on anyone who incinerates, buries, disintegrates, or totally or partially destroys the corpse or human remains of an unidentified person.”
The criminal lawyer also recalled that during David Monreal Ávila’s administration, the governor of San Luis Potosí, Ricardo Gallardo, has also denounced the same illegal practice from neighboring Zacatecas.
Regarding the statements and cross-accusations made by the governors of Jalisco and Zacatecas, criminal lawyer Casas Figueroa also noted, “It seems that the Lemus and Monreal governments are playing the victim. The truth is that the state governments don’t trust each other. They’re kicking each other under the table.”
“Let’s remember that the San Luis Potosí prosecutor recently stated something similar: that a searching mother had been taken from her life in Zacatecas,” and was found tortured and dead in a municipality in San Luis Potosí.
It was last Friday, August 29th, when María Manuela García Cázares, the San Luis Potosí prosecutor, contradicted Rodrigo Reyes Muguerza, Secretary General of the Zacatecas government, who had previously reported the location of Ms. Aída Karina Juárez Jacobo, a searching mother from Zacatecas, whose body, it was reported in Zacatecas, was found in the municipality of Villa de Ramos.
Source: jornada
