Thread: Mexico: Five severed heads tossed onto dance floor

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Severed heads tossed onto dance floor
From correspondents in Mexico City

September 07, 2006 12:00


FIVE severed human heads were thrown onto a dance floor in a crowded disco in western Mexico, officials said.

Authorities blamed the grisly scene on rival drug gangs.

“Hooded men dressed in black stormed into a bar, fired into the air and threw down five heads,” said Rosaura Trujillo, a spokeswoman for the Michoacan state prosecutor's office.

The men also left a card with the message: “The family does not kill for money. It does not kill women. It does not kill innocents. It kills only those who deserve to die. Everyone take note - this is divine justice.”

According to the local radio station Formato 21, the club, known as “Sol y Sombra,” or “Sun and Shade,” is a favourite of drug gangs.

Ms Trujillo said that after other recent murders, including decapitations, officials had found references to “the family”, but she could not say whether it referred to a specific group or a battle between families.

Michoacan is the scene of a war between rival gangs of drug traffickers that has left some 300 people dead since the beginning of the year

Brian,
didn't we do a post about two months ago on I think it was 5 police officers beheaded ?

Such a wonderful place down south of the border way

Here was an article that had 2 separate beheadings of policemen. One they found 2 policemen with their heads cut off. Another they found 4 with their heads cut off. Three of them were police. That would make 5 total.

http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=F ... ic&t=33173

yep, thats it, such a friendly little place.

TERRORIST! TERRORIST!!! TERRORIST!!!!!!!!!!! AND OUR PRESIDENT WON'T SECURE THE BORDER!!!!!!!! I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANYMORE ABOUT TERRORISM FROM OUR GOVERNMENT IF THEY REFUSE TO CLOSE THE BORDER AND TELL US THAT THE REAL TERRORIST ARE JUST NEXT DOOR AND ENTERING OUR COUNTRY THROUGH THE SOUTHERN BORDER!!!!! SECURE THE BORDER AND DEPORT NOW!!!!!!!!

sawdust,
Ditto...you have ripped the words right from my soul

when will these ELECTED GOVERNMENT folks...freaken
LISTEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
remember 1824

“Hooded men dressed in black stormed into a bar, fired into the air and threw down five heads,” said Rosaura Trujillo, a spokeswoman for the Michoacan state prosecutor's office.

Yeah, this is the norm at my local watering holes...NOT!

When La Raza is confronted with the translation of The Race, don't they come back and say it means "The Family"?

Dixie

http://today.reuters.com

Gang dumps human heads in Mexican bar
Wed Sep 6, 2006 10:16 PM ET

By Greg Brosnan

URUAPAN, Mexico (Reuters) - An armed gang of suspected drug traffickers wearing ski masks threw five human heads onto the dance floor of a bar in western Mexico on Wednesday in an apparent revenge killing, prosecutors said.

Wielding handguns and rifles, some 20 men dressed in black drove up to the Luz y Sombra (Light and Shade) club on the edge of the city of Uruapan, in Michoacan state, shortly after midnight, barged inside and fired shots in the air.

They forced late-night revelers to lie on the floor and pulled the five male heads out of plastic bags, dumping them on the dance floor along with a handwritten message, a spokesman for the Michoacan state prosecutor's office said.

The gruesome incident highlighted the challenge facing the next president, Felipe Calderon, in ending drug violence. A court named Calderon, a native of Michoacan, president-elect on Tuesday after a contested election in July.

"What's likely behind this are problems stemming from drug trafficking," a spokesman for the local attorney general's office said. He said the killings could be revenge for the murder in the same city on Sunday of two women, one of whom was beheaded and had a finger sliced off.

The handwritten note called the attack "divine justice."

"The family does not kill for money. It does not kill women or innocent people. Those who die are those who must die. Everyone should know that this is divine justice," it read.

Relatives who came to identify three of the victims denied they were involved in crime, local police chief Ramon Ponce said. "One was an avocado picker, one was a mechanic and one was unemployed. They weren't wealthy people," he told Reuters.

Two of the victims have yet to be identified and police have not found the rest of the five bodies.

Surrounded by mountains and avocado groves, Uruapan was quiet until about 10 years ago when drug gangs based in nearby villages began competing for business, local residents say.

The Luz y Sombra bar has plastic chairs and tables and offers an escort service and table dancers.

Gabriel Solorio, manager of a bar underneath it, said locals understood the violence was score-settling between drug traffickers and not directed at outsiders, but said, "Everyone feels scared."

Thirteen people have been decapitated this year in Michoacan, which has a long and sparsely populated Pacific coastline and is used by traffickers shipping cocaine and marijuana to the United States.

A severed head was dumped in Acapulco in June, marking a surge in drug violence before the July election.

On Tuesday, gunmen shot and killed a senior policeman in front of a church in the state of Nuevo Leon, south of Texas.

(Additional reporting by Chris Aspin)

Well, the count IS prime, I'll give the p'taks that much. Although I strongly doubt such was by design; more likely it was meer luck and happenstance.

There is this; a Mad Max type future will at least be exciting, if not very productive...