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    Mexico police probing "hitmen" Web site adverts

    Mexico police probing "hitmen" Web site adverts

    11 Jul 2008 20:43:15 GMT
    Source: Reuters
    By Mica Rosenberg

    MEXICO CITY, July 11 (Reuters) - Mexico City police are investigating classified advertisements posted on the Internet by people offering their services as hired killers for as little as $6,000, police said on Friday.

    One post on the Web site, which hosts free ads for people selling old home appliances or renting apartments, advertises the services of an "ex-military hitman, professional and discrete."

    The man promises a "job guaranteed in 10 days or less" and adds "I have worked in Spain, only serious offers, $6,000."

    A police spokeswoman said authorities were taking the ads seriously, at a time when Mexican drug cartels and organized crime gangs are going ever more public with their tit-for-tat murders and leaving bodies and severed heads in streets.

    Some 1,700 people have been killed so far this year in attacks between rival cartels and the thousands of soldiers and federal police sent out to crack down on them. Gangs often use paid assassins using high-caliber weapons for their hits.

    "The problem of hitmen is real and we are facing it all over the country -- people offer their services to kill someone for a price," city police official Miguel Amelio Gomez was quoted as saying in the daily Reforma newspaper.

    Mexican drug gangs aired radio spots in Guatemala earlier this year seeking elite ex-soldiers to work as smugglers, and an armed wing of the Gulf cartel hung banners in towns near the U.S. border also advertising for new recruits.

    One of the Internet ads, titled "Hitman -- Killer for Hire," reads: "Problems with a certain person? Want it taken care of? Write me. I am 100 percent professional and don't charge in advance."

    One advertiser, contacted by Reuters, boasted that he had "international experience" and enough tales to write a book.

    A slow and ineffective justice system means homicides in Mexico are often left uninvestigated and killers elude jail.

    The website also has an ad from somebody seeking to hire a "reliable" hitman for "an easy job" in Mexico City. (Editing by Anthony Boadle)

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    Mexico probes online 'hitmen ads'

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    Mexican police are investigating a number of classified ads on the internet which purport to be from hitmen offering the services.


    Just a click away: Online 'killers' boast a professional service

    The ads can be found alongside ones for private tuition or domestic help.

    In one of them, a person describing himself as an ex-military killer offers "discreet, professional services" for $6,000 (£3,000).

    Hired killers are a problem across a country which has seen at least 1,400 killings this year.

    Most of the killings are related to drug cartels battling for control of the illegal drugs trade to the US. Reports say the cartels have camps to train killers.

    The dead include dealers dealers and gunmen as well as more than 400 police officers and other public officials, this year. Some 25,000 troops are now deployed around Mexico to try to break the cartels.

    But correspondents say an ineffective justice system means many killers are never caught.

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    What may be why they are prepared to publically look for work. In the online adverts on one classified site one advert reads: "Assassin ex-military professional and discreet. Work guaranteed in 10 days or less. Have worked in Spain. $6,000. Serious requests only" and gives a hotmail address as a contact.

    Another offering "hitman for hire" asks: "Problems with a certain person? Do you want me to solve it? Write to me. 100% professional, we don't take money in advance."

    The classified ads site also appears to be a place where those needing the services of a killer might go.

    One advert in the Wanted section reads: "I need to contact a killer for a probable contract in the DF (Federal District of Mexico) must be reliable. it is a simple job."

    Police spokesman Miguel Amelio said the problem of hitmen is one that "the whole country is facing: people who offer their service and charge for killing someone".

    He told the Reforma newspaper that police had not ruled out the fact that the ads were fake, but all were being investigated.

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