Hitmen were going for Harfuch, Loret de Mola claims that Claudia’s strong man had to flee

2023-12-19 13:30:00

CDMX.- The former presidential candidate and former Secretary of Security of Mexico City, Omar García Harfuchhad to leave the country unexpectedly after being alerted by the National Intelligence Center (CNI) that a commando of hitmen from Jalisco New Generation Cartel He was heading to Mexico City for him, he says. Carlos Loret de Mola.

In his column Historias de Reportero, the journalist does not give details about the date of the events, but states that Harfuch was alerted by General Audomaro Martínez Zapata, director of the CNI, and it was he who recommended that he leave Mexico.

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“It was the general himself Audomaro Martínez Zapata, head of the National Intelligence Center (CNI, formerly CISEN), which had contact with García Harfuch to notify him of this information that was in his possession. And he gave him a recommendation: leave the country immediately,” says the editorial writer.

According to Loret de Mola, the former official contacted Claudia Sheinbaum who, after explaining what was happening, gave him the green light to leave the country and he took a flight to Europe. However, the journalist did not give details about where he is.

Yesterday it was reported that the former official’s appearance on the Pegasus espionage case was postponed at the Federal Criminal Justice Center of the South Prison due to delays caused by other witnesses having extended their statements.

Harfuch was Secretary of Security of the country’s capital when the now presidential candidate was head of government and resigned last September to participate in Morena’s internal process for candidate for head of government.

Harfuch is currently running for the Senate in 2024, but even in public opinion there are those who believe that, if Claudia wins the presidency, she will be the next Secretary of Security or even Attorney General.

THREAT TO HARFUCH, A SERIOUS ISSUE FOR THE OFFICIALISM

For the journalist Carlos Loret de Mola the threat to Omar García Harfuchclose to the presidential candidate of Morenarepresents a serious matter because he is currently a “front-row political figure,” and if the electoral context is added to this, it is even more delicate.

“If something happens to Omar García Harfuch, in addition to the unfortunate personal tragedy, it would also mean a brutal political blow for the government and the party, in the middle of the campaign,” he says.

García Harfuch suffered an attack on June 26, 2020 when he was traveling in his truck in the streets of Mexico City and in which armed men shot him more than 400 times, according to official information.

The attack was attributed by the capital authorities to the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel, which had already threatened him. The then capital official received at least three bullet wounds, but three of his companions lost their lives.

This episode marked his career as security secretary in the country’s capital. However, according to the journalist, it was in the pre-campaign for head of government that gave him greater visibility.

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In this context, Loret de Mola warns that “anything that happens to her would expose the weakness of the Government, its strategy against violence, the vulnerability of the presidential candidate and has the destructive potential of shaking the campaign board.”

And he adds that the threat to Claudia’s so-called strong man on security issues already “says a lot about the state of things in Mexico.”