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Animal Ashes Given to Patrons of 'Fake' Crematorium, Prosecutor Says

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Funeral homes that used the services of an inoperable crematorium in Juarez, Mexico, gave grieving sons and daughters boxes with crushed stones and animal ashes instead of their relatives’ remains, law enforcement officials south of the border say. The revelations come as Chihuahua state forensic experts examine some of the 383 bodies found in the offices and warehouse of the Plenitud crematorium on June 26 and June 27 in southmost Juarez.

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María Eugenia Galván Antillón, current president of the System for the Integral Development of the State Family (DIF) and mother of the governor María Eugenia Campos Galván, was responsible for authorizing the permits to the crematorium Plenitude, in Ciudad Juárez, where 383 bodies were found stacked at the end of June.

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The scandal of the Plenitude crematorium in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, in northern Mexico, continues to grow. Federal Security Secretary Omar García Harfuch revealed in a morning conference with President Claudia Sheinbaum that the ashes delivered by the establishment did not correspond to human bodies, but on many occasions to animal remains. “Within the investigation carried out by the General Prosecutor’s Office of the State of Chihuahua, it h…

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The Federal Secretary of Security said that they also handed over remains that did not correspond to the deceased; they catalogue 2 houses of the owner of Plenitude Carlos Coria The Federal Secretary of Security, Omar García Harfuch, revealed that the ashes they delivered in the crematorium of Ciudad Juárez were “animal remains.” At the President's conference, Harfuch said that within the investigation being conducted by the Prosecutor's Office …

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Mexico City, July 8. The Attorney General’s Office of the State of Chihuahua is in charge of the investigations of the crematorium Plenitude in Ciudad Juárez, where 383 accumulated bodies were found; “we know that they have two people arrested” and that the ashes they handed over on many occasions were “remnants of animals,” said Omar García Harfuch, head of the Ministry of Public Safety and Protection. “They are in the investigation and also in…

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BorderReport broke the news in on Tuesday, July 8, 2025.
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