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Leyzaola Armored Vehicle Attacked in Juarez... by 20 Federal Police!

Woooosh - 7-26-2011 at 06:25 PM

Makes you wonder who the bad guys are down here some times...

http://www.frontera.info/EdicionEnLinea/Notas/Nacional/26072...

Developing story- Google Translate:

"Attack on Leyzaola Denounced" , Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua (SUN)
At least 20 elements of the Federal Police attacked the vehicle carrying the Municipal Public Security Secretary, Julian Leyzaola Perez, Monday night, when he addressed the Social Rehabilitation Center for Adults, where there was a riot that left 17 people dead and two seriously injured, reported the town clerk, Hector Perez Arcelus. The city official announced that lodged a complaint for attempted murder before the Attorney General's Office (PGR ), and demanded that controls the corporation to submit to federal agents fired upon the truck Leyzaola.

He said there were about 20 federal police who attacked the armored car, which allowed Perez Leyzaola stay alive. Leyzaola explained that after attending the attack on a vehicle with explosives presumably burned on the Boulevard Bernardo Norzagaray Monday night, went to the Municipal Cereso where there was the riot. He said to reach the area of Blue Ravine Street and off the premises of the so-called City of Justice, a group of federal agents opened fire on the vehicle which was carrying. He said that when the shooting stopped, and faced down a Federal Police, demanding an explanation for the attack and asking who was in charge of the group. But no answer and went to another group, which likewise did not answer. ¨ Never gave me an answer, all fired on the vehicle, which fortunately is shielded, but is no longer here, was in support of the elements found in Cereso ¨, he added.

Arcelus Perez considered that the attack was not by chance and announced that a lawsuit be filed with the PGR for the crime of attempted murder " We will not allow managers to safeguard the integrity of Juarez are acting this way, as they once did to the assassination of the mayor's bodyguard, then pointed their guns at him president and now this, "he said. He said no argument or excuse on the part of federal agents. "They attempted to kill Lt. Julian Leyzaola are policemen who are fully identified and the claim that we make the PFP is to put the 20 items available immediately to the Attorney General's Office. "It was a clear attack against the Secretary of Public Safety, the federal agents know which truck driving, know what to bring and escort is not logical nor credible that have acted on causation," he reiterated. He said that they have witnessed the attack and no shots fired back, "was no fluke, the Federal Police acted in bad faith and this type of behavior is a constant that has been taken against the town of Juarez."

This is the Leyzaola second attack on Perez and the first, allegedly at the hands of elements of the Federal Police. On 23 June, a group of suspected extortionists operating in the colony and surrounding areas Chaveņa attacked the convoy guarded by the Secretary of Public Safety Municipal. At that time, Perez Leyzaola escort repelled the aggression and wounded one of the assailants, while the other managed to flee on foot. On 25 January this year, a mayor's bodyguard was killed Hector Murguia Lardizabal by members of the Federal Police, a few meters from the Hotel Impala is located on Avenida Lerdo and was used as headquarters by the federal corporation. Subsequently, on May 4 was a confrontation between the mayor's bodyguards and elements of Federal Police, when the mayor was headed to an event Infonavit."

DENNIS - 7-26-2011 at 06:55 PM

This place, Mexico, is so ***edup.

Juarez is specifically ***edup.

Where is the hope when the General of the forces is attacked in his own city? He works and lives in a penny-arcade where anybody who wants takes shots at him.

Juarez needs gas..........not Pemex.

tjBill - 7-27-2011 at 11:41 PM

The BBC is reporting on the event,


Mexico prison shooting: Police row over response