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A Mexican federal judge who was in charge of organized crime cases was shot to death along with his wife on Tuesday by an armed group that broke into their house in the state of Colima (west), the Supreme Court of Justice reported.

Judge Uriel Villegas was at home with his family when, shortly before noon, armed men entered violently and opened fire. Two underage girls, daughters of the magistrate, and witnesses to the attack, survived. So did the housemaid.

"We ask the competent authorities for their support to guarantee the safety of federal judges and their families, and that the corresponding responsibilities be investigated and defined," said Arturo Zaldívar, president of the Supreme Court, during a remote session. of the highest court.

The Security Secretariat also condemned the murder of the judge and his wife, while the Attorney General's Office announced on its Twitter account that it "fully assumes" the investigation of this attack.

Villegas had been assigned since February to a federal criminal court in the city of Colima, capital of the state of the same name.

Previously, he had served as a magistrate in the state of Jalisco and, according to the Mexican press, he was in charge of the case of Rubén Oseguera, son of Nemesio Oseguera "El Mencho", leader of the powerful Jalisco Nueva Generación cartel.

Villegas ordered in 2018 the transfer of Oseguera Jr. to an Oaxaca prison, from which he was extradited to the United States in February.

In late 2006, the government of then President Felipe Calderón launched a controversial military offensive against organized crime that, according to specialists and human rights defenders, has been one of the main motives for an escalation of violence in Mexico.

According to official figures, since then there have been almost 275,000 murders in the country, although it is not detailed how many cases are linked to the fight by the mafias.

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