Mexico's attorney general promises full investigation into mass grave

Record ID: 1983535

  • Title: Mexico's attorney general promises full investigation into mass grave
  • Date: 12th March 2025
  • Summary: JERUSALEM (MARCH 14, 2025) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF ISRAELI POLICE STANDING GUARD OUTSIDE DAMASCUS GATE ENTRANCE INTO JERUSALEM'S OLD CITY MUSLIM WORSHIPPERS WALKING TOWARDS DAMASCUS GATE (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) 84-YEAR0-OLD WEST BANK RESIDENT, SALEH AL BADAN, SAYING: "I have not missed a Friday prayer at Al-Aqsa for fifty years, and thank God it was easy and we came this Friday
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  • Keywords: Jalisco crime dissappeared drug gangs mass graves murders violence
  • Location: TEUCHITLAN, JALISCO & MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
  • City: TEUCHITLAN, JALISCO & MEXICO CITY, MEXICO
  • Country: Mexico
  • Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Crime,South America / Central America,North America
  • Reuters ID: LVA001807912032025RP1
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  • Story Text: Mexico's Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero pledged on Tuesday to conduct a full investigation into a mass grave recently found in western Jalisco state that is believed to be linked to the country's violent drug gangs.
    The promise from Mexico's top prosecutor follows local media reports that a civilian activist group recently discovered the site in Teuchitlan, Jalisco, along with several ovens possibly used to cremate bodies.
    "It is not credible that a situation of this nature would not have been known by the local authorities of that municipality and the state," Gertz Manero said during a presidential news conference.
    In 2024, the non-profit organization Mexicanos Contra La Corrupcion, or Mexicans against Corruption, published a report that showed that 111,000 have been reported missing since 1962 and are yet to be found. The states with the highest rates of missing people are Jalisco, Michoacan and the State of Mexico, the report added.
    (Production: Fernando Carranza, Alberto Fajardo, Nina Lopez)
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