Mexico City -. Government said that the Republic has strengthened mechanisms for identifying bodies through "forensic evidence, science and technology."
This, after which in 2013 was erroneously reported as dead Francisco Nuñez Galeana, 'The Panther'.
On April 10 of that year, members of the Federal Police intercepted a convoy Apatzingán shot dead and five probable criminals, among them believed was Francisco Nuñez Galeana, 'The Panther', one of the leaders of the Knights Templar cartel.
The next day, relatives of the killed came to the Attorney General of Michoacán to the recognition of the bodies, which were found to be Juan Manuel Velázquez Cruz, Alejandro Martínez Arellano, Abraham Murillo Silva, Artemio Guevara Rodríguez and Mario Alberto Fuentes, the latter whose body was confused with that of 'The Panther'.
Almost a year later, on February 27, 2014, after an operation in the town of Miigica, Michoacan, federal authorities announced that as a result of a confrontation, the Federal Police killed Núñez de Galeana.
Monte Alejandro Rubido, executive secretary of the National System of Public Security, presented photographs of El Pantera in 2009, to be compared with the abatement occurred in recent days. Both tattoos of a panther that had Galeana in the torso and arms are perceived.