No cremations occurred at Teuchitlán mass grave, says AG

Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero said connected Tuesday that quality remains recovered astatine a now-infamous ranch successful occidental Mexico are fragmented and immoderate amusement signs of cremation.

However, helium besides said that ungraded and different materials from the Izaguirre ranch that the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) submitted for investigating did not amusement immoderate signs of an “act of cremation” having taken spot astatine the spot successful the municipality of Teuchitlán, Jalisco.

Federal authorities support that the Izaguirre ranch, wherever quality remains and a important fig of idiosyncratic belongings were recovered by hunt collectives, was a “recruitment, operations and grooming center” for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). (Fiscalía del Estado de Jalisco/Cuartoscuro)

The ranch has been described successful the media arsenic an “extermination camp” and adjacent “Mexico’s Auschwitz.”

Speaking astatine President Claudia Sheinbaum’s greeting property conference, Gertz said that quality remains recovered astatine the ranch are “very fractionated” and “they don’t straight correspond to a azygous corpse.”

“In immoderate cases these remains person traces of immoderate benignant of cremation,” helium said.

“Therefore what we person done is archetypal bash the adept study that corresponds to america and past … nonstop them to the National [Autonomous] University [UNAM] laboratories truthful that the property of these remains is established with implicit precision,” Gertz said.

The lawyer wide acknowledged past period that quality remains were recovered astatine the ranch, asserting astatine the clip that Jalisco authorities didn’t taxable them to testing.

For his part, Security Minister Omar García Harfuch said successful precocious March that neither the ministry helium leads nor the national government’s information furniture had grounds that the spot was “an extermination camp” arsenic has been claimed.

Rather, it was “a grooming center” for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), helium said, adding that helium didn’t person immoderate cognition of radical having been killed astatine the property.

Gertz said connected Tuesday that the FGR, based connected accusation provided by an alleged CJNG person arrested successful transportation with the lawsuit past period and 2 different people, established with “complete precision” that the Izaguirre ranch was a “recruitment, operations and grooming center.”

“I judge determination is simply a bully magnitude of accusation that we’re going to person successful the people of this week and adjacent week and I would similar to spot the anticipation of summoning you to not lone springiness you the accusation but besides the applicable documentation,” helium told reporters.

In aboriginal March, reports emerged that a corporate that searches for missing persons had discovered 3 crematoriums connected a spot successful Teuchitlán, Jalisco.

The Warrior Searchers of Jalisco besides recovered much than 150 pairs of shoes and different grounds that suggested that a important fig of radical had been killed and/or cremated astatine the ranch. However, the national authorities has challenged that narrative.

AG: Analysis of ranch ungraded doesn’t bespeak that cremation occurred 

Before speaking astir the quality remains that person been sent to UNAM for analysis, Gertz said that the FGR submitted soil, “stone materials” and operation materials from the Izaguirre ranch for investigating to find whether they showed immoderate signs of an “act of cremation” having taken spot astatine the property.

He told reporters that the FGR didn’t observe immoderate specified signs.

Soil, “stone materials” and operation materials from the Izaguirre ranch were submitted for investigating to find whether they showed immoderate signs of an “act of cremation” having taken spot astatine the property. (Fernando Carranza García/Cuartoscuro)

“For us, this is not enough. We’ve asked the laboratories of the National [Autonomous] University to ratify oregon rectify this information,” Gertz said, adding that the FGR wants the results of the investigation immediately.

18 suspects successful custody 

Gertz said that “substantial progress” has been made connected the Teuchitlán lawsuit since the FGR took power of the spot astir 2 weeks ago.

He said that 15 radical who were already successful custody “for different crimes” are present nether probe successful transportation with the case. Three further radical including 2 erstwhile municipal constabulary officers person been arrested successful transportation with the case, bringing the full fig of suspects to 18.

The 15 suspects initially detained “for different crimes” are “linked” to organized crime, Gertz said.

He said that “the boss” of the “unit” of which the detained suspects were allegedly members was detained successful Mexico City. The lawyer wide was referring to the apprehension past period of José Gregorio Lastra Hermida, allegedly a CJNG person who was progressive successful the recruitment of cartel members who were sent to the Izaguirre ranch for training.

Teuchitlán ranch volition beryllium opened up to hunt collectives

Gertz said that erstwhile the FGR has completed its forensic processes astatine the Izaguirre ranch it volition unfastened it up truthful that hunt collectives tin analyse the property.

“And we won’t conscionable unfastened it up but besides supply each the facilities to enactment [there],” helium said.

“And each these remains volition beryllium disposable to the nationalist truthful that the adept determination we instrumentality tin beryllium ratified,” Gertz said.

Asked erstwhile the ranch successful Teuchitlán would beryllium opened to hunt collectives, the lawyer wide said it depends connected however agelong the investigating astatine the UNAM laboratories takes.

“We’ve told them that this is simply a substance of utmost urgency. They person an investigation protocol, which similar immoderate adept protocol, takes its time,” Gertz said.

With reports from El Economista, El Universal, El Sur and enun2x3