The Attorney General’s Office (FGR) initiated an investigation against who or who is responsible for the events on roads in the state of Zacatecas.
“The FGR will request the investigations and opinions corresponding to elements of the Federal Ministerial Police (PFM), the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC), as well as Expert Personnel of the Institution in order to properly integrate the investigation folder,” the agency said in a statement.
This, after this August 27, a group of armed people burned vehicles to block roads in Zacatecas and placed ponchallantas to affect other cars.
According to data from the State Board of Peace Building and Security of the state, vehicles were reported on fire on federal highway 54 Zacatecas-Villanueva, on state highway 23 and federal highway 45 of Fresnillo.
Security in Zacatecas
Last weekend, the municipality of Fresnillo, in Zacatecas, registered a violent day, with two attacks that left five dead, one of them a 14-year-old teenager.
In Zacatecas, from the beginning of 2022 to the month of July, three thousand 669 victims of a crime are registered.
Regarding homicides, the report is one thousand 9 victims, 760 are intentional homicides, according to the most recent statistics of the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP).
On August 17, the U.S. government issued an alert for citizens not to travel to Zacatecas, due to the violence in the state.
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