The Non-public Secretary of the Mayor of Mexico and a counselor had been killed On Tuesday in an armed assault south of the capital, native authorities reported.
The capital of the capital Clara Brugada mentioned in an announcement that the killings came about within the trendy colony of Benito Juárez, the place his secretary Ximena Guzmán and his adviser José Muñoz had been attacked.
Brugada indicated that workers from the Ministry of Safety and the Prosecutor’s Workplace, with assist from the municipal authorities, Investigations have already begun to find out the cellular of the assault and establish the attainable accountability, who had been touring on a bike.
The armed assault occurred round 7.30am when Guzmán He moved to a car and was reached by two substances that glided by motorwho shot a number of instances inflicting the dying of Muñoz, who was directing unity. Guzmán tried to keep away from shootings when he left the automotive however was mortally injured and his physique was mendacity on the sidewalk, native media reported.
When suicides repent of President Claudia Sheinbaum, who till mid -last yr served as chairman of the capital, mentioned at his morning convention that There will probably be no impunity On this case and inspired to attend for the development of the investigation.
Sheinbaum indicated that thus far there isn’t any information that the non-public secretary of Brugada had acquired any threats and added that the official had no bodyguard.
Through the first quarter of the yr within the Mexican metropolis, the place international locations of all public authorities had been reported, about 188 malicious suicides, barely greater than the registration of the identical interval final yr.
The assault towards the mayor’s affiliate happens 5 years after the aggression suffered by Omar García Harfuch, the present secretary of federal safety, when he served as head of the capital’s police. The assault towards the police chief was carried out by members of the highly effective Jalisco new era cartel.
“We condemn the assault immediately for 2 public officers of the Mexico authorities of the town; there will probably be no impunity,” mentioned X Pablo Vázquez Camacho, Secretary of Public Safety of the mayor’s workplace on the social community.
The final comparable incident was in June 2020, When the present Federal Secretary of Public Safety, Omar García Harfuch, was injured in a bullet assault on the streets of the town of Mexico.
The armored truck the place Harfuch was touring, then the Secretary of Native Public Safety, was attacked by a number of blows linked to Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG), some of the highly effective in Mexico.
In that assault two of his companions and a passerby died.