In the middle of the funeral of the lemon leader of Michoacán, Bernardo Bravo Manriquezwhose lifeless body was located this Monday, new information emerges about his homicide and demands of justice.
Under strict security measures, friends, family and social leaders They said goodbye to him in the pantheon chapel that will be the last resting place of someone who constantly fought for make violence and insecurity visible who lived fruit producers, cutters and packers.
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The coffin arrived at the scene around 1:00 p.m., accompanied by his wife, Judge Amelí Navarro Lepe, and his two youngest children.
She did not leave the coffin, she listened carefully to the priest’s words, while her little ones, at times, clung to her waist.
The Union of Unions and Social Organizations of the State of Michoacán (USOSEM) demanded the state government to act immediately when threats against businessmen or agricultural leaders are reported.
He Michoacan BREAD held the federal government responsible for the lack of strategy against violence.
Producers in the region denounced that An atmosphere of fear, insecurity, constant extortion and government abandonment prevails.
They give details
For his part, the head of the Attorney General’s Office of Michoacán (FGE), Carlos Torres Piña, indicated that Bravo Manriquez left Morelia this Sunday with direction to Apatzingán to meet with lemon trees and he told his wife that he would go through his escorts – two state police officers.
He indicated that, according to the cameras, he was accompanied by another person, presumably his security detail.
Upon reaching their destination, they headed to the Tianguis Limonerowhere he changed vehicles, a situation they are investigating, while his companion got into another car, he explained.
He stated that one of his custodians had already summoned him to testify, but The one who supposedly traveled with the lemon producer has not been located.
He explained that the forensic experts determined that the homicide could have occurred on Sunday night, hours before the discovery in Los Tepetates; They gave him the coup de grace and a blow to the head with the butt of a pistol.
“It seems that they accommodated him as if he were driving, he did not have his cell phone or his wallet. There was no weapon, there was no shell casing,” he said.
Torres Piña stated that everything indicates that they summoned him to Cenobio Moreno and asked him to go alone.
Bravo Manriquez had declared that cartels had demanded that he raise the price of lemonfruit whose Low cost in rainy season.
Promise justice
The president Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo lamented the murder of Bernardo Bravo, president of the Association of Citrus Growers of the Apatzingán Valleywho had reported extortion by organized crime groups in the region.
The municipal president of Apatzingán, Fanny Arreola Pichardowarned that criminals have infiltrated lemon producers’ associations.
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Others
“There is no clear line between who is dedicated to crime and who is dedicated to lemons (…), since these people manage to infiltrate producer groups”
Fanny Arreola Pichardo
Municipal president of Apatzingán
“To the extent that these types of crimes remain unpunished, they make it easy for criminals to murder someone with a voice as powerful as that of Bernardo Bravo.”
MEMO VALENCIA
LEADER OF THE PRI MICHOACÁN
NUMBERS
14 people were murdered in Michoacán between last Monday and Tuesday
1 subject was arrested for the crime identified as Rigoberto N, El Plátano
48 executions, nationwide, were reported during the day on October 20