The place of the massacre
The two criminal organizations have been in conflict for several years for control of the territory in central Mexico
Mexico City – In a new chapter of the unprecedented violence that has ravaged Mexico for many years, a commando of heavily armed, face-covered narcos stormed a hotel and two bars in the city of Celaya, in the central state of Mexico. Guanajuatokilling at least eleven people, mostly women.
A preliminary report by the Mexican police indicated that last night at least 15 hitmen with their faces covered aboard three SUVs in front of the Gala hotel, in the Valle Hermoso district of the city, shooting wildly inside the building and in two bars nearby, with a toll of at least eleven dead, including eight women, and four injured.
During the merciless operation, the hit men used large-caliber weapons and also threw rudimentary incendiary bottles causing fires, particularly severe in bars, while the people who were on the spot tried desperately to hide or flee. Alerted by phone calls from residents in the area, the police arrived shortly afterwards in the company of the Fire Brigade, and elements of the army and the National Guard who isolated Calle Azalea where the attacked premises were located.
The arrival of the army
According to local media, the killers left behind a banner signed by the drug traffickers of the Santa Rosa de Lima Cartel, containing significant threats to the rivals of the Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) Cartel, considered the most powerful in the country which for some time replaced the Sinaloa Cartel.
A war that has lasted for years
These two criminal organizations have been in conflict for several years for control of the territory in central Mexico, where they carry out drug and fuel trafficking, kidnapping and extortion from businessmen. The government of Guanajuato he condemned the massacre, regretting the large number of victims, and assuring that the state Attorney General’s office and federal authorities are working “so that those responsible are found and justice is done”.
At least a thousand murders
The state of Guanajuato was at the center in the first five months of 2022 of 993 of the 4,850 murders that took place in Mexico, said the minister of federal public security, Rosa Icela Rodríguez Velázquez, surpassed only by the state of Michoacán where 1,000 murders took place in the same period.
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