They leave seven bodies and five packages with human remains in the streets of the city of Monterrey, in Mexico

This Tuesday, alleged members of organized crime left the bodies of seven people and five packages with human remains in the streets of the metropolitan area of Monterrey, the second most populated city in Mexico and the largest in the north of the country.

The Attorney General's Office of the State of Nuevo León, bordering the United States, has reported the appearance of the bodies, which correspond to men.

Given the events, the Government of Nuevo León has organized an urgent security meeting, after which the state Security Secretary, Gerardo Palacios Pámanes, has attributed the events to a “purge” within a criminal group.

“What we shared and visualized was a purge within an organized crime group that has its main residence in Tamaulipas (neighboring state),” said Palacios Pámanes.

The official has stressed that apparently the events are linked to “disloyalties” within the same group.

In the same meeting, the acting state prosecutor, Pedro Arce, has established that they will ask the municipalities to provide the material from the surveillance cameras in the areas of the findings for the investigations of the events.

“Municipalities will be asked to share the videos with us so that experts in the matter can analyze the precise moments in which the bodies were left,” he said.

In an interview with the media, the deputy prosecutor of the Public Ministry, Luis Enrique Orozco, stated that the first report of the events was received at 6:45 a.m. (12:45 GMT) and the last before 8:45 a.m. (14 :45 GMT).

“There is relative coherence in the distribution of these remains, so the possibility could be assumed that they had traced a route to deposit the remains,” he explained.

Gang violence returns

He has also recognized that such bloody events had not been seen in Nuevo León for a long time, when the federal government declared the so-called “war on drug trafficking.”

He added that at least in the last five years there is no record of events in this number.

“In the bloodiest time 10 or 12 years ago there were similar acts, in this volume I do not remember in the recent past,” he commented.

The municipalities where the events were recorded are San Nicolás, Juárez, Apodaca, García, Santa Catarina and Monterrey.

The Nuevo León Attorney General's Office has warned that the information corresponding to the number of bodies is preliminary because the work and investigations are still ongoing.

In recent months, the level of violence by organized crime groups has worsened in Nuevo León, which ranks tenth in absolute homicides in the country, registering 842 in the first eight months of 2023, when Mexico in general reported more than 20,000.