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Officers of the Attorney General’s Office Investigative Police of the CDMX, in collaboration with the National Guard and the Secretary of National Defense (Sedena) completed a search warrant at property located in the office of the mayor of Iztapalapa. During the actions they detained a man whom they They secured a gun filled with eight useful cartridges.

The address was located in the Citlalli neighborhood, at the Iztapalapa town hall, where a firearm, magazine and cartridges were seized, in addition to dry green grasswith features of medicationand one person was arrested.

The due diligence was conducted by staff of the General Directorate of Attention and Compliance with Court Orders, it was carried out in response to a citizen complaint. The insured and the detainee were made available to the agent of the public prosecutor’s office, attached to the General Coordination of Territorial Investigations, who will continue the integration of the investigation file opened for damage to health and possession of a weapon. fire.

According to report 1.104.00-FC, dated June 2022, and titled Fire arms. Bilateral cooperation on arms traffickingfrom January 1, 2020 to June 9, 2022, 49,437 crime-related weapons were seized by Mexican authorities, an average of 1,947 seizures per month.

From this, 61.28% corresponded to short arms, while 37.77% were long arms or large caliber rifles. Among the weapons that arrive the most in Mexico stands out the Rifle Barrette M82A, one of those who tried to shoot down a helicopter trying to arrest Ovidio Guzmán, “El Ratón”, in the “Culiacanazo” on October 17, 2019.

According to some information, of the total number of weapons seized only 40% had information about the country where they were made. In this sense, at least 24 thousand 113 came from the United States, of which about 19% were sold in Texas, Arizona and California.

The Mexican authorities ensured from 2020 to 2022, more than 55,000 weapons made in the United StatesFor this reason, Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard, in November 2022, notified that the demands on the United States continue to increase their actions at the border so that they seize a number similar to what Mexico is in the process of. to achieve in order to seriously stop arms trafficking. .

Photograph of weapons seized during an anti-drug operation.  EFE/Johnny Parra/File
Photograph of weapons seized during an anti-drug operation. EFE/Johnny Parra/File

In this sense, he explained that the United States is concerned about chemicals that cross the border, such as fentanyl which is a strong challenge for Mexico as well, but the country seeks to make a coincident and proportional effort to reduce the gun flow, since they are the ones who reach criminal groups throughout the Mexican Republic.

According to the map exhibited by Ebrard, it was concluded that Tijuana It ranks as the city with the highest number of insured weapons of North American origin, so it is one of the municipalities with one of the highest homicide rates; the second is Ciudad Juárez.

Compared to US maps, the counties with the highest gun sales are Hartford, followed by Maricopa, Harris, Hampden, Pima, Angelsdallas, Not, to only cite a few. For this reason, the effort that the northern country has to make to cut off the supply of weapons from Mexican lands, “is very small compared to what Mexico has to do to control the drugs that come to the United States, it there is a disproportion of forces”.

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