At least On Tuesday, 3 people were killed and 10 people were injured in the explosive attack on the prosecutor’s office. The President of the State of Jalisco in western Mexico reported the situation to District Governor Enrique Alfaro. The attack on State Attorney’s agents and Municipal Police took place in the municipality of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga, about 33 kilometers from the city of Guadalajara, the state capital of Jalisco.
“Tonight, Tlajomulco Prosecutor’s Office and Police personnel were cowardly attacked with explosive devices in the foreground, which killed three colleagues from the municipal police and Prosecutor’s Office and injured 10 others,” the head of state said in a statement. notification. message on social networks. “This is an unprecedented event that shows what these organized crime groups are capable of. This attack also represents a challenge to the Mexican State as a whole.”
After the attack, Alfaro noted that the Jalisco Security Cabinet “was in permanent session and the Prosecutor’s Office will continue to report as investigations progress and official data are confirmed”.
A few years, The state of Jalisco is experiencing a crisis violence and insecurity Because of the existence of organized crime groups such as the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG).
This Tuesday, Mexico’s Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC) reported that in the first half of the year, nearly half of the homicides in the country were concentrated in six states: Guanajuato, the State of Mexico, Baja California, Jalisco, Chihuahua, and Michoacán, with 7,226 of these crimes in total.
Mexico has faced a violent wave in recent years. A total of 30,968 intentional murders were recorded in 2022, while 33,308 were recorded in 2021. Before registering two of the most violent years in its historyIt is under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who had 34,690 murder victims in 2019 and 34,554 in 2020.