In the middle of the funeral of the lemon leader of Michoacán, Bernardo Bravo Manríquezwhose lifeless body was located this Monday, new information emerges about his murder and demands for justice.
Under strict security measures, friends, family and social leaders said goodbye to him in the pantheon chapel, which will be the last resting place of someone who constantly fought to make visible the violence and insecurity experienced by fruit producers, cutters and packers.
The coffin arrived at the scene around 13:00 hoursaccompanied by his wife, the judge Amelí Navarro Lepeand their 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.
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The Union of Unions and Social Organizations of the State of Michoacán (USOSEM) demanded that the state government act immediately when threats against businessmen or agricultural leaders are reported.
He Michoacan BREAD He blamed the federal government for the lack of a strategy against violence.
Producers in the region denounced that an environment of fear, insecurity, constant extortion and government abandonment prevails.
They give details of the murder of Bernardo Bravo
For his part, the owner of the Michoacán Attorney General’s Office (FGE), Carlos Torres Piñaindicated that Bravo Manríquez left Morelia this Sunday heading to Apatzingan to meet with lemon trees and 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 Limonero, where he changed vehiclesa situation that is being investigated, while his companion left in another car, he explained.
He stated that one of his custodians had already been summoned, but the one who supposedly traveled with the lemon producer had 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 he was summoned in Cenobio Moreno and they asked him to go alone.
Bravo Manríquez had declared that cartels had demanded that he raise the price of lemon, a fruit whose cost drops during the rainy season.
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Sheinbaum promises justice
The president Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo lamented the murder of Bernardo Bravo, president of the Association of Citrus Growers of the Apatzingán Valley (ACVA), who 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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