An entire police force of 28 officers has been arrested over the murder of a mayoral candidate in western Mexico.


Each officer from the town of Ocampo was cuffed, disarmed, and interrogated by internal affairs officials of the Mexican Secretariat of Public Security.

They are being investigated for possible involvement in the assassination of local mayoral candidate Fernando Angeles Juarez on Thursday.


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The 64-year-old anti-corruption campaigner was gunned down outside his home in Ocampo by unknown shooters.

Photos in local media show the officers lined on the floor lying face down with their hands cuffed behind their backs.

They were officially being investigated for potential violations of the police code of conduct but authorities didn't give more details.

Mr Juarez was the third politician to be killed in the state of Michoacan in 10 days, and within 24 hours of one of them, Omar Gomez Lucatero.

More than 100 politicians have been murdered in Mexico ahead of next week's general election on July 1.

Ocampo's 28 police and the local public security secretary were arrested by federal forces on Sunday morning.


His party confirmed the assassination and called on the government to provide protection for election candidates.

Mr Juarez was just the latest victim in Mexico's bloodiest-ever election campaign that has claimed the lives of more than 120 candidates, almost all in local contests.


Mr Juarez was running for mayor of the town of 24,000 people about 95 miles west of Mexico City as part of the state's governing Democratic Revolution Party.

With more than 3,400 local, state and federal posts at stake, there are more than 15,000 candidates hitting the campaign trail.

Secondly, this speaks to the changes in criminal groups.

With the evolution of crime, it becomes much more important to gain control over territory, over localgovernments, he said.


In crimes like fuel theft, for example, local police can be valuable allies to act as look outs or cover up for illegal pipeline taps and illicit fuel warehouses.

Some gangs have even taken to extorting money from local governments by forcing them to sign inflated public works contracts.

Those concerns could lead the gangs to kill a candidate who rivals their favorite, or ones who refuse their demands.

Mexico is also more violent than it has been in decades with 25,339 people murdered last year.

More than 200,000 people have been killed since the government launched its militarised offensive against drug traffickers in 2006.



Relatives of Mr Juarez carry his coffin during his funeral in Ocampo.

Fancy this happening in Nigeria.

Same way we Fulanis are going to lock down the all of South west and south east if Buhari fails to win the 2019 election.

Hmmm

Working police

The crime rate in mexico is far more than that of nigeria but the way their government tackle it is far better than ours.

We need good leaders

A sane clime where nobody is above the law. But over here, the police go shoot protesters, still video am, dey play am for office dey laugh

And we start asking ourselves the IF............. Questions

moscobabs:
The crime rate in mexico is far more than that of nigeria but the way their government tackle it is far better than ours.

We need good leaders

Yet 200k died?

A country not as complex as Nigeria o.

this is what I want for Nigeria. give us state police then setup internal affair the fed to monitor the police

omo see discipline.. Lord when will this kinda tin happen in Nigeria hen? they should just arrest d entire police force in Borno,benue,plateu.

Meanwhile in Nigeria.......

Try this in Nigeria and see wonders. You'll just be transmitted

MEXICO and drugs with crimes.

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My Major problem is Buhari killing squad. If you did not just greet Cows? Killing direct and nothing will happen. even the Change have change to progressive so run for your dear life Nigerians.

And over here, SARS has been disturbing us and nobody cares

Here ke, na cover up go end am! There is no real law guiding the affairs of the law enforcers

Well done o Mexico... Well done!

chaaaii 200 politician killed for now,naija still dey learn for where dis one's dey oo. i love them for the mentality of no one is above the law thing.

Explorer come and finish what you started

ClassRep001:
Same way we Fulanis are going to lock down the all of South west and south east if Buhari fails to win the 2019 election.

Talk is cheap!

Good riddance

And the Mexico President was not shouting change like a drunkard! If Buhari was a man of war! A tough president worth his salt! The commissioners of Police in Jos, Benue & others should be arrested!

IGP disobeyed Buhari, flaunted the Senate and is still proudly in office!

Buhari has blamed everybody but himself for his incompetence! GEJ, PDP, Opposition, Youths....
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Never again, shall we have a President is clueless, lazy and wicked!

Sars comes to mind here

How I wish dis can be done to naija sars

SARS next....

The ENTIRE police force in Jos deserve this treatment

Mexico is a very rugged Cartel country.

I want Colombia to advance to the next stage in the world cup so they can meet up with Mexico at some point. We need to see who's the realest drug trafficker.


Sinaloa vs Medellin Cartel

Mexico. Mafia