Mencho's blacklist: killings begin

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The blacklist of 'El Mencho' ...  the hunting by the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel begins, of officials in the Office of the Prosecutor; 2 dead

A macabre attack against officials of the Attorney General of the State of Jalisco started with an anonymous message

The Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG), led by Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes (El Mencho), has its "blacklist" of objectives in the Attorney General office of that State.

Between 10 and 15 "officials of the state government and some municipalities is in the sights  of the organized crime group, said Jalisco prosecutor Gerardo Octavio Solis, who acknowledged that the attacks against three agents of the prosecution last Friday, that caused the death of two of them, were part of a strategy in which the perpetrators "fell short".

According to reports, an anonymous message arrived last Friday at the Attorney General of the State of Jalisco. A male voice warned "that today they were going to proceed against several elements of the prosecution, because an agreement failed to be reached with  the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, and that today from 9 am they would proceed."

"We have data that (the criminals) fell short, because in other objectives they could not act (...). The common objectives are public servants of this prosecutor's office and there is the real possibility of other objectives of the state or municipal government, we do not rule out any possibility and we do the analysis of all the information in depth, "said Solis.

The list of Mencho

The first alert arrived around seven in the morning. An armed group had gone to look for an official at her home. They surprised her when she was about to take her children to school. The smallest of them was on the porch of the house when the assassins began the attack.

There were 50 shots, coming from at least four weapons. Miraculously, the official and her children were unharmed. Her husband received nine hits. He is serious and in intensive care.

The report alerted the units, which went en masse to the Rinconada neighborhood. The intention, apparently, was to send the police force to another point, because minutes later came a second report, generated in the municipality of Tlajomulco, at the other end of the city.

“Get out or we will go in and kill everyone”

The crew of two SUVs, a CRV and an Explorer of late model, arrived at the residence of a prosecutor's investigator, in Residencial Jardines del Edén. They shouted from outside, they called the agent by name. When he looked out, they began to shoot. A nine-year-old boy was injured. According to the witnesses, the assailants shouted: "Get out or we go in and kill everyone." The investigator decided to leave. They secured him, taking him to one of the vehicles and murdered.

Various units went, in the middle of the morning traffic, towards the new point. According to a source from the Office of the Prosecutor, agents combed the surrounding streets, where safe houses have frequently been reported.

It is not known how, in one of them, they were shot. It was a ferocious shooting: a confrontation of more than one hour in which two alleged criminals died and three others were arrested. Ten handguns and ten long weapons were collected. There were hundreds of shots. The walls of the home were completely perforated. Two grenades thrown from the inside were thrown in the street, without exploding. Halfway through that shootout, came the report of a third attack.

The hit men went to the home of an investigator who lived alone. They shot the walls of his home. They found him showering. They killed him with a long weapon (his phone appeared mysteriously lying in the corner, next to the body of a cyclist, who also died of a gunshot).

The prosecutor, Gerardo Octavio Solís, reported later that several suggested that the aggressors made a blacklist of between ten and 15 officials.

Distraction; 14 bags of human remains

At 11:14 in the morning, public security officials received a report from a neighbor, who took them to an area of Tlaquepaque. There they found 14 black bags with human remains.

The bags did not look new, they were "like powdered". In nine, experts from the Jalisco Institute of Forensic Sciences located the remains of eight female corpses, and one male.

Sources of the prosecution assure that the bodies were unearthed from  graves as part of the concerted action: a way to distract the authorities, while the envoys of the CJNG perpetrated another attack - that in the end did not take place.

He had never lived a day like this in the metropolitan area: the assassins of Nemesio Oseguera, El Mencho, playing cat and mouse, to send a message to the government of Enrique Alfaro.

Vanguardia With information from La Jornada and El Universal