Mexican Attorney General Says There Were No Cremation Furnaces At Infamous Cartel Training Ranch
- Mexican Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero stated there are no signs of cremation furnaces at the Izaguirre Ranch linked to the Jalisco cartel after a federal investigation took over on March 25.
- Gertz confirmed that human remains have been found at the ranch, which is being investigated as a recruitment and training center for the cartel.
- Authorities arrested 18 individuals related to the case, emphasizing that the ranch was not an extermination camp, as previously claimed.
- A spokesperson for the Jalisco cartel accused volunteers of exaggerating their findings to damage the cartel's reputation during ongoing investigations.
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No sign of crematory ovens at Teuchitlán ranch, says FGR
The head of the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic (FGR), Alejandro Gertz, confirmed that at the Izaguirre ranch in Teuchitlán, Jalisco, human remains were found “with traces of some kind of cremation” and do not correspond to a single person. However, he stressed that forensic analyses carried out by the unit in his charge showed that “there is no evidence that crematoriums exist in the premises”.
No furnaces or human remains in Teuchitlán: Governor of Jalisco denies findings in Rancho Izaguirre
The governor of Jalisco, Pablo Lemus Navarro, ruled on the Teuchitlán case and said he agreed with the statements of the Attorney General’s Office of the Republic (FGR) regarding the investigations, denying that there were crematoriums or clandestine kilns in the Rancho Izaguirre. “We agree with the information presented by the prosecutor Gertz today. There is no indication from the State Prosecutor’s Office of Jalisco, as well as (not even) the…
No cremations occurred at Teuchitlán mass grave, says AG
Attorney General Alejandro Gertz Manero said on Tuesday that human remains found at a now-infamous ranch in western Mexico are fragmented and some show signs of cremation. However, he also said that soil and other materials from the Izaguirre ranch that the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) submitted for testing did not show any signs of an “act of cremation” having taken place at the property in the municipality of Teuchitlán, Jalisco. Federal au…
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