The drama on the border of two states
The Zacatecas prosecutor, Cristian Camacho Osnaya, dropped the bomb this Saturday: six of the seven bodies found in Tepezalá, Aguascalientes, are those of people from Zacatecas. Two of them, women. The seventh remains unidentified, and that case is already the responsibility of the Aguascalientes prosecutor’s office.
But the theater doesn’t end here. What really sets off alarm bells is what comes after.
The dirty tricks of organized crime
Camacho revealed something that seems taken from a crime series script: organized crime is issuing apocryphal search warrants. Yes, you read that right. They use Facebook pages to spread false tokens with logos of the Alba Protocol, names, photos and even personal details. “It catches our attention that they prepare them with specific data,” said the prosecutor, as if they were playing at being authorities.
The families came to report disappearances after seeing those files on networks. But here’s the plot twist: many had not reported anything before, because they did not know when their loved ones disappeared. Organized crime not only kills, it also usurps functions of the State.
“They prepare them with specific data, by requesting them with photographs, names, characteristics, particular details and even the place of the loss”
Complaints that arrived late
Until yesterday, there was only one formal complaint for illegal deprivation of liberty, dated April 17 in Cieneguillas. But after the discovery, three more families came forward. None of them reported kidnapping, it was just that they had not heard from their relatives since April 26, 20 and 29. The search files were not released because the families did not authorize them, and the Prosecutor’s Office respects that.
The operation is already underway in the border area between Zacatecas and Aguascalientes. But meanwhile, organized crime continues to move its pieces on this board of horror. The question that remains: who is behind those fake chips? And more importantly, how many more are disappearing without anyone looking for them?
