Two Simultaneous Attacks on Police in Southeast Juárez

Bottom Line:  One Sicario Dead

Some State Police Go on Strike Asking for Resignations

From reports in today's Diario de Juárez (click here):  For the eighth time in less than a week police in Juárez have been under gunfire aimed directly at them.  At about 8:30 last night armed men began shooting at the municipal patrol car parked in front of the home of Daniel Paulin Barraza, a municipal police commander, and into his home.  The driver of the patrol car was wounded in the leg, but managed to kill one of the assailants

At the same time another attack began at the home of an official of the State Security Commission (CES).  No one was injured except for a child hit by a ricochet bullet.

A group of state police officers in Cd. Juárez have called for a work stoppage of state police today beginning at 8:30 am, to protest the lack of protection afforded to them, and asking for the resignation of state police commander Gines  Martinez Garcia and State Security Commissioner Oscar Aparicio Avendaño. To guard against further attacks one unit stationeid an armored vehicle nicknamed El Rino in front of a local state police facility.  Reports have indicated that, fearing for their lives, state police officers throughout the state have failed to report to work.

Diario Foto:  The "Rino" Parked in Front of State Police Facilities