WORLD NEWS: JUDGE SHOT DEAD IN MEXICO
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According to the state prosecutor’s office and local media, a judge was shot dead in Acapulco, Mexico’s once-thriving seaside city, on Wednesday.
The judge who was shot at least four times in his automobile outside a courthouse in Acapulco was named by the local media as Edmundo Roman Pinzon, head of the Superior Court of Justice in Guerrero state.
Days after assuming office, the mayor of Chilpancingo, the state capital, was assassinated and beheaded in October.
Nineteen individuals were killed in the state a few weeks later in gun skirmishes between security personnel and suspected gang members. Twelve mutilated remains were found in cars in Chilpancingo last month.
The most populated city in the state, Acapulco, was once a playground for the wealthy and well-known, but in the past ten years, it has lost its appeal as foreign visitors have been put off by the bloodshed that has made it one of the most violent towns in the world.
In keeping with the custom of withholding full names, the Guerrero state prosecutor’s office announced in a statement on Wednesday that it was “investigating the crime of aggravated homicide against Edmundo N.”
The murder occurred just over a week after state governors attended a National Public Security Council conference in Acapulco, which was chaired by President Claudia Sheinbaum.
In Mexico, since the government began an attack against organised crime in 2006, there have been over 450,000 murders due to spiralling violence, much of which is connected to drug trafficking.
Sheinbaum, who became Mexico’s first female president in October, has denied starting a new “war on drugs,” as the contentious initiative was dubbed.
Instead, she has promised to adhere to the “hugs not bullets” approach of her predecessor, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, which emphasises social policy to address the root causes of crime.
In Guerrero, 1,890 murders were reported last year.
AFP
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