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It attacks the drug trafficker; Omar García Harfuch received threats from the Jalisco Cartel

MEXICO CITY.

They were going against everything Omar García Harfuch and they failed.

More than two months ago, the capital’s police chief received direct threats from the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG). “Let’s go with everything,” they warned him.

The threat materialized yesterday morning, when the command and its escorts were ambushed at two points in Lomas de Chapultepec. The attack was carried out by four cells of seven assassins each.

García Harfuch was shot three times, but after being operated on, he was out of danger. Two of his bodyguards died and a woman traveling in a car that was left in the crossfire. After several operations, authorities arrested 19 people linked to the attack, including the alleged intellectual author.

The command’s security was tightened two weeks ago: at least ten officers were watching over him after intelligence detected threats against officials after the murder of Judge Uriel Villegas. There were even promises of payment for those who carried out the attacks.

Analysts and specialists in security issues were surprised by the attack against the secretary of Local security. Also, they said it was expected as a reaction to the government’s actions against criminal groups.

The truck in which Omar García Harfuch was traveling was circulating on Sierra Madre Street when he began to be attacked by the hired killers. Photo: AFP

In separate interviews with Pascal Beltrán del Río, to Radio ImageThey also agreed that this is a reaction to the freezing of their bank accounts.

THE CJNG CARRIED OUT THREATS

For more than two months, Omar García Harfuch, owner of the Secretariat of Citizen Security (SSC) he received direct threats from the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel (CJNG). “We are going to go with everything,” they said.

This morning we were cowardly attacked by the CJNG, two colleagues and friends of mine lost my life, I have three bullet wounds and several shards. Our Nation must continue to confront the cowardly organized crime. We will continue working ”, the secretary tweeted yesterday at 9:32 am, just three hours after suffering the attack in Lomas de Chapultepec and before entering an operating room.

Two weeks ago, his security team was reinforced: at least ten escorts monitored their activities after they were identified by federal intelligence. threats of attacks against at least four officials, including García Harfuch, after the murder in Colima of federal judge Uriel Villegas Ortiz.

Even sources from the SSC referred to this newspaper that an economic remuneration had been set for those who carried out the attack against García Harfuch.

Yesterday the federal Secretary for Security and Citizen Protection, Alfonso Durazo, confirmed the threats weighing on García Harfuch.

We are following up on organized crime groups, particularly around the most belligerent; This type of threat often exists. A week ago there was an eventual threat to some public security officials, ”he said.

What was also confirmed by Durazo in the context of the attack was the fact that the National Intelligence Center (formerly Cisen) He was able to intercept a call that was allegedly from a CJNG chief, who was talking about an attack on a high-ranking government official. Among the targets of the cartel were Santiago Nieto, of Financial Intelligence; Marcelo Ebrard, Secretary of Foreign Relations, Durazo himself and García Harfuch.

The version of that call and the threat against one of those officials was presented at a cabinet security meeting, which takes place early in the day at the National Palace.

In a discreet way, in addition to the internal investigations that are made in the police to find out if any element could be involved with the leak of information on the itinerary and customs of García Harfuch, in federal instances Excelsior was able to get the version of a notice Sui generis.

From a prison, where the leaders of La Unión Tepito are detained, a message was sent, which indicates that for at least two weeks a criminal group had asked to do “a chamba that destabilized”.

Immediately the authorities of Mexico City they undertook an investigation.

Apparently, the message from the heads of the Tepito Union to the authorities was to prevent the batteries of the capital’s police from going to Tepito, their territory, which they are fighting with the Anti-Union, linked to the CJNG.

THE HITS TO THE CARTEL

Since coming to the Sheinbaum administration, he has battled the CJNG

2019

May 28

García Harfuch orchestrated the arrest of Sergio Flores Concha, alias The Tortas The Commander T, leader of the Anti-Union, a group linked to the CJNG.

2019

July 24

As head of the Investigative Police, he intervened in the investigation of the double murder of two Israelis in Artz Pedregal at the hands of the CJNG.

2019

September 6

Announced the arrest of Mauricio “N”, The Mawicho, mastermind of the murder in Artz; They located him in Zapopan, Jalisco.

2019

October the 17th

Two weeks after taking office as Secretary of Citizen Security, he arrested the new leader of the Anti-Union, Jorge Miguel Rodríguez, The HeadsI know The Tortas.

HITS TO THE CJNG

As the head of the Investigative Police, the first position he held in the Claudia Sheinbaum administration, García Harfuch directly intervened in the investigation of the double murder of two Israelis that occurred on July 24, 2019, in the Plaza Artz Pedregal, perpetrated by members of the CJNG .

On September 6 of that year, Omar García Harfuch announced that Mauricio “N”, alias The Mawicho, was identified as the material author of the Artz attack, who was located and detained in Zapopan, Jalisco.

García Harfuch has also been behind the arrests Jorge “N”, known as The Tortas, and that of Jorge Miguel Rodríguez Muñoz, The Heads, both leaders of the so-called Anti-Union.

THE OTHER ATTACK

On September 7, 2011, Javier García Morales, 58 years old and half brother of Omar García Harfuch, was killed when he got out of his truck to enter a restaurant.

The attack occurred on the sidewalk of Providencia Avenue, corner of Bogotá Street, in the Providencia neighborhood of the municipality of Guadalajara, Jalisco.

ABOLENGO IN THE WORK OF SECURITY

Kind and charismatic, Omar García Harfuch has never hidden the pride of being a policeman and the impatience to face on the field of combat the objectives previously outlined in the intelligence work, tasks in which his father and grandfather were leaders.

The secretary of Citizen Security of Mexico City He was born when Javier García Paniagua was already a legend as the best of the time to guarantee control of the city.

Omar was a child when, in 1988, President Carlos Salinas de Gortari removed Don Javier from his retirement to be the secretary of Protection and Roads in the then Federal DistrictHe, on parental advice. “If they want to have governability, and be calm, you have to bring García Paniagua,” Raúl Salinas Lozano recommended.

In addition to having studied in the Army, García Paniagua cultivated the military and political relations of his father, the also iconic general Marcelino García Barragán, Governor of Jalisco, and Secretary of Defense from 1964 to 1970, the years of the Tlatelolco massacre, and therefore a character always marked as the brain of the state’s security and repression apparatuses in the old regime.

Although Don Javier did not follow the military career, his abilities in the field of intelligence place him as the architect of the defunct Federal Security Directorate, of which he was the head, a kind of political police that is attributed to the operation of the call War dirty.

Given the talent in the exercise of political control, García Barragán later occupied the Undersecretariat of the Interior; He was secretary of the Agrarian Reform, leader of the PRI, and head of Labor and Social Welfare, where he was considered presidential in the six-year term of José López Portillo, who according to accounts of the time had sent him a drawing of a horse in a napkin, in sign that he would be the uncovered.

Product of the marriage with the actress Maria Sorté, Secretary García Harfuch was 16 years old when his father died. Although he did not know his grandfather, he was formed admiring the family legacy.

Trained in the discipline that he would be a man of combat and with distinctions for various successful operations, the scandal touched the official of the capital government when his half brother, Javier García Morales, was murdered in Guadalajara nine years ago for his alleged friendship with local drug lords. .

Without stumbling in his ascending career in the security apparatus, García Harfuch loses his kindness when he is instructed to stay at the desk, with the fieldwork plan arranged.

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