When a group of citizens looking for missing relatives in the Western state of Jalisz came to a remote ranch near the second largest city of Mexico at an anonymous hint, all they had to do is to open the open gates.
Inside, they went to work with simple tools – elections, shovels and metal bars – performing the work that state investigators allegedly did six months earlier.
What they considered to be embarrassed by the state authorities and shook Mexico: dozens of shoes, heaps of clothing and what it seemed to be fragments of bone. Confused families from all over the country have already begun to resort to the items they say they recognize.
Jalisz Prosecutor General's Office through the AP
It was a shocking reminder of Mexico over 120,000 disappeared And it is enough to push the federal government to take over a problematic investigation.
“Training Base” for Recruit Cartel
Rancho in Teychitlane, approximately 37 miles west of Guadolahari, was allegedly used as a training base for recruiting cartels when the National Guard troops found her in September last year.
The authorities then said 10 people were arrested, two hostages were released, and the body was found wrapped in plastic. The State Prosecutor's Office entered the excavator, dogs and devices to find inconsistencies in the ground.
But then the investigation passed quietly while the members of the Jelisk soldiers, one of the dozens of search teams that put Mexico last week visited the site on a hint.
They found shoes as well as heaps of other clothes and what seemed to be burnt bone fragments.
The members of the Search team returned to the court on Thursday, invited to watch the authorities when they worked on registering evidence and search for property.
“Many families came forward to determine the clothes' items,” said Maribel, a member of the search team who made a press outside the ranch and asked them to be determined only by the security name.
“What we want is to stop it all, the disappearances,” she said. “We hope that this time they will do the job as they should.”
“Irresponsible omission”
According to the government, more than 120,000 people disappeared in Mexico. Search teams such as Jalisco Search Warriors had to organize to do a job that will not do the authorities often. They are looking for sites such as the one that in Teythatlane is sometimes with a government protection, but most often, and then makes its discoveries known to press the authorities to do their job.
This time it worked.
Jelisk Salvador Gonzalez de Los -Santos, Prosecutor of Jelisk Salvador Gonzalez, visited Ranch on Tuesday. He said investigators found six bones, but it was unclear how many victims they could belong. He did not submit details about why investigators had not previously found what unprepared private citizens did, but stated that the previous efforts were “insufficient”.
His Office posted photos Of all the evidence that hopes that relatives can determine the garment.
Governor Jalisk Pablo Lemus announced on Wednesday that the Prosecutor General's Office would take over the investigation at the request of Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum. The Jalisco New Generation cartel is a dominant criminal organization in the state.
On Thursday, white government cars rang the isolated ranch of squats laid by a high wall and field.
“This ranch served as a study place, and although it sounds awful, very cruel, for extermination,” said Indira Navarre's collective leader earlier this week.
She accused the previous governor of Enrique Alfar of “trying to hide a similar situation or opening.” And she asked aloud how state investigators on technology and training could find what her group “with a choice, shovel and metal bar”.
On Wednesday, the Mexican Episcopal Conference said in a statement that it is disturbed by the opening of a site indicating the “irresponsible release” by bodies of all three levels of government and another sign of Mexico has disappeared.
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A mass grave Last December, 24 people contained the remains of 24 people in the suburbs of Guadalahara with dozens of bodies, the authorities said. Mexican authorities have discovered 12 bodies buried in a underground grave in North Chihuahua in Mexico. Another 12 bodies were also found in several graves in about two hours from Judad Joarez, located across the border from El -Pasa, Texas.
In the same month, the Mexican authorities said they restored everything 31 bodies From the pit in Chopas, the state suffering from the violence of the cartel.
Teams that are looking for missing Tell me that drug trafficking and other organized crimes sometimes use furnaces to burn their victims and not leave traces.