Patrol car in which the murdered policemen were being transported. 

The violent acts in Jocotepec, as well as in the road that goes to Mazamitla, filled the population with uneasiness and uncertainty, while the authorities made a call to remain calm and not to be victims of disinformation or fall into telephone extortion.   

The municipal president of Jocotepec, José Miguel Gómez López, asked people  to remain calm and said that people  attempting telephone extortion have tried to take advantage of the fear.  He exhorted people  to hang up the phone  if they receive calls attempting to extort them.

Before the murder of the two policemen and the two  members of Civil Protection and Firefighters who were wounded, the Governor of Jalisco described the crime as cowardly, saying that there is no risk for the civil society. 

«There has been no direct  threat  to the civilian population, there is no risk that implies suspending classes, there is no municipal authority that has the power to suspend activities,» Governor Enrique Alfaro  said in a video.

Translated by Patrick O’Heffernan