The candidate for mayor of Coyuca de Benítez, Guerrero, for the alliance of the Institutional Revolutionary Events (PRI), Nationwide Motion (PAN) and the Democratic Revolution (PRD), José Alfredo Cabrera Barrientos, was shot to dying yesterday in his marketing campaign closing.
The homicide occurred when the politician was coming down from a stage following his marketing campaign closing speech whereas bodyguards shot down the alleged aggressor.
Reviews from state safety companies indicated that round 6:00 p.m. native time (00:00 GMT) the incident occurred on the final day of campaigns for the June 2 elections.
Within the photographs revealed by these attending the closing of the marketing campaign on social networks, it’s noticed how the aggressor was behind him when he was strolling and, later, when he left the stage, the hitman took out a weapon – it was later discovered that it was a 9 millimeter caliber – and He shot him twice within the head.
Moments later, the bodyguards of a non-public firm who have been guarding and offering safety to the candidate, shot the aggressor a number of instances, taking his life.
Each our bodies have been left mendacity within the park the place the rally was going down and witnesses declare that as a result of photographs fired by the bodyguards, three attendees have been injured, and two males have been detained by the police.
On the scene, Nationwide Guard police, State and Ministerial police guarded the crime scene in order that consultants from the State Legal professional Normal’s Workplace might start their investigations.
On Could 17, candidate Aníbal Zúñiga Cortes, of the PRI-PAN-PRD coalition, was discovered dismembered alongside together with his spouse Rubi Bravo Solís at the back of a truck within the port of Acapulco.
Attributable to this violent occasion, the candidate José Alfredo Cabrera had requested better safety from cops from the Nationwide Guard, State Police, Ministerial Police, and the Navy, along with personal safety escorts.
Learn extra: Violence and threats in Mexican elections fear worldwide observers
A minimum of 34 candidates have been murdered through the marketing campaign interval
The consulting agency Integralia, which paperwork political violence on this electoral course of, reported yesterday that political assaults elevated by 150.5% in Mexico to a complete of 749 victims within the present course of in comparison with the final midterm elections in 2021.
The consulting agency documented for the reason that official starting of the electoral course of, on September 4, a every day common of two.8 victims of assaults, which embrace murders, assaults with firearms, threats, kidnappings, disappearances and different types of high-impact violence.
“If the every day common continues, we undertaking greater than 760 complete victims following the election,” warned the “Pre-Election Day Report.”
Among the many assaults, Integralia documented 34 murders of candidates, a determine that rises to 231 homicides when additionally contemplating officers or former officers, politicians or former politicians, members of the family and collateral victims.
The Authorities of Mexico acknowledged on Tuesday the homicide of twenty-two candidates, of which solely eight have been official candidates, though unbiased teams depend extra, corresponding to Integralia, and the 39 from the consulting agency DataInt.
The presidential campaigns ended this Wednesday to provide solution to three days of electoral ban in Mexico, which on Sunday has the biggest elections in its historical past with greater than 98 million folks known as to resume greater than 20,000 positions, together with the Presidency, the five hundred deputies and the 128 senators.
With info from EFE
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