Car explosion in Guanajuato, due to dispute between cartels: SSPC

Cabo San Lucas, BCS. When announcing the progress of the investigations into the explosion of two vehicles in Guanajuato, the Secretary of Public Security and Citizen Protection, Omar García Harfuch, maintained that it falls within the context of a dispute between a local cartel with the Jalisco Nueva cartel. Generation. He identified the origin of the attacks in an episode that occurred on October 16 when the Acámbaro state police recovered a tractor-trailer and another vehicle reported stolen, also securing tactical equipment.

In the first presidential conference outside Mexico City, the official explained that as a result of this action, the head of Public Security in Acámbaro received death threats. This Thursday, at 5:10 in the morning, a first attack was recorded with the burning of a vehicle, which was followed at 6 in the morning by the explosion of the second vehicle outside the police headquarters in Acámbaro.

He reported that the federal authorities and the Attorney General’s Office are supporting the state and municipal authorities in this situation. Investigations were initiated for various crimes such as attacks on authority, damage to other people’s property and for injuring local police officers.

Later, when asked specifically about whether it could be considered terrorism, the secretary rejected this classification because terrorism has ideological or religious foundations and in this case these attacks are part of a dispute between cartels or an attack because it is considered that local police forces They are fighting them or feel that a corporation is in favor of the opposing group.