The Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) has claimed authorship of the murder of Yolanda Sánchez Figueroa, mayor of Cotija, Michoacán, and his escort. The criminal group known as “Skulls“, a faction of the CJNGclaimed responsibility for the attack through social networks.
He stroke It took place last night on Javier Mina Street. Sánchez Figueroa and his escort, municipal police officer Jesús V., had left a gym and were heading to the official’s house.
As they walked down Juárez Street in the Center of Cotija, they were ambushed by the occupants of a white van. The attackers fired from the moving vehicle with 7.62×39 caliber weapons. Yolanda Sánchez received at least 19 gunshot wounds. Both the mayor and her bodyguard were seriously injured and were taken to a hospital in Los Reyes. Both died while receiving medical attention.
The Attorney General’s Office of the State of Michoacán has initiated an investigation file to clarify the murder of Sánchez Figueroa and his bodyguard. After the attack, a multidisciplinary team traveled to the scene of the crime to carry out the relevant investigations and find those responsible.
Yolanda Sánchez Figueroa is not a figure alien to violence. On September 24, 2023, the mayor was kidnapped in the Andares shopping plaza in Zapopan, Jalisco, by armed subjects while he was in the company of two women. This kidnapping occurred when Sánchez Figueroa was preparing to return to her hotel, and she was intercepted at the intersection of Patria Avenue and Gabrielle D’Annunzio Street.
The mayor was released days later in the municipality of Mazamitla, Jalisco. After his release, Sánchez Figueroa recounted in a video the anguish he experienced during his captivity. Despite the threats received from the CJNG and other episodes of violence, such as an armed attack against the Municipal Palace in April, he never requested government protection.
Michoacan It is one of the regions most affected by organized crime violence in Mexico. The situation in Cotija during Sánchez Figueroa’s mandate was marked by multiple violent acts, including kidnappings and murders of municipal police officers.
When the municipality was kidnapped, Javier Estrada Cárdenas, general secretary of the PAN in Michoacanpointed out that the mayor had expressed on several occasions that she felt overwhelmed by the presence of organized crime in her municipality.
At that time, the governor of Michoacán, Alfredo Ramirez Bedollaconfirmed in a press conference that the mayoress had received threats advances by the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
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