Violent day in Edomex: the clash between police against the Michoacan family left 13 dead

The authorities of the State of Mexico confirm it murder of 13 officers, after being ambushed by alleged members of La Familia Michoacana, Who is it intercepted a convoy of state police and ministerial officers in Coatepec de Harinas.

Officers were patrolling the Llano Grande area when they were attacked, with which, Eight state officials and five members of the Mexican prosecutor’s office lost their lives.

By shared images Police vehicles and a white van with multiple gunshot wounds are seen, along with the bodies of soldiers and civilians strewn on the asphalt.

Experts from the Mexican public prosecutor’s office are already carrying out the corresponding procedures. The site was followed by reinforcements from the National Guard, Mexican Navy and the military to protect the area and carry out a search for those responsible. Operations are conducted by land and air, supported by the National Intelligence Center.

An audio circulating on Twitter identifies the desperate call for help from the officers in the middle of the attack: “Ask for support, Carmen, they shoot us (…) in favor, they shoot us in Llano Grande!” the officer is heard screaming by radio frequency.

“This action is an affront to the Mexican state, we will respond to it with all force and with the support of law and legitimacy.“, He said Rodrigo Martínez Celis, Secretary of State Public Security, in a joint statement with the Public Prosecutor, Alejandro Gómez Sánchez.

“The families of officials who died on Thursday will benefit from all the support and support of the two institutions”, Gómez Sánchez said for his part.

Furthermore, other Mexican state policemen were executed in Almoloya de Alquisiras. The images circulating on social networks refer to would be between two and four officers who were killed aboard a patrol.

The authorities confirm these latest data. But if so, they would add 17 officers killed in less than four hours in the state.

According to reports, the command of suspected members of the Familia Michoacana surprised the soldiers as they prepared for a patrol. From where they were exploding from a van with large caliber weapons. A few seconds later, a few meters from the same road, the attackers met the investigative police and shot them dead.

On the drug trafficking map, the Michoacan family, who attacks with guerrilla tactics taking advantage of the rugged Mexican territory, dominates the southern part of the state under the leadership of Jhony El Mojarro and Jose The strawberry, the Hurtado Olascoaga brothers, who are the leaders of the criminal group.

On this site, there is an alliance between the said criminal organization and the Knights Templar, with which they managed to move the criminal cell United warriors of a large part of the territory.

First name Hurtado Olascoaga, began to be heard loudly in 2014, when the Mexican authorities offered him a big reward for his comings and goings.

The investigation reveals that the brothers were sent to the state of Mexico by one of the heads of the Michoacan family, to take control of the neighboring region of Guerrero, made up of Mexican municipalities. Bejucos, Luvianos, Tejupilco and Tlatlaya.

Hurtado Olascoaga and 18 contract killers who came to “clean up the area” were responsible for the wave of kidnappings that erupted in Valle de Bravo at the start of the last decade; probably the most exclusive area of ​​the Mexican state.

According to the archives of the American authorities, The Michoacan family he was officially dissolved in 2011, after the arrest of their last boss, José de Jesús Méndez Vargas, the “Chango”, but he continued to operate in cells dedicated to trafficking, kidnappings and extortion in Guerrero, in the state of Mexico and in the capital of the country, especially in the suburbs of the periphery until 2014, according to analysis by the US Congressional Investigative Service. Although a New Michoacan family still active in parts of Guerrero and Michoacán.

In early July 2020, the unusual brutality and fanaticism of the cartel, whose stronghold is the state of Michoacán, caught the attention of Mexican state authorities. This organization not only kills rivals and profits from drug trafficking and extortion, but they also said war on the entity police.

According to the register of the Causa en Común organization, the State of Mexico was the second deadliest entity for the police with 39 cases in 2020. Only behind Guanajuato, which recorded 84; these states follow Veracruz (39), Guerrero (37) and Chihuahua (35). In the past year, the organization has counted 524 police officers killed.

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