GUADALAJARA, September 25, 2014 (AFP) – A Mexican federal lawmaker was killed and burned after being abducted in broad daylight, authorities confirmed Wednesday, shocking his ruling party amid government assurances that violence is down.
Deputy Gabriel Gomez Michel was heading to the airport in the western state of Jalisco on Monday when at least five cars intercepted his sport-utility vehicle, authorities said.
The 49-year-old former pediatrician’s body was found early Tuesday in the neighboring state of Zacatecas inside the charred remains of his SUV, alongside the burned corpse of his assistant.
Forensic experts positively identified the bodies of Gomez Michel and Heriberto Nunez Ramos, who were so badly burned that authorities could not tell how they were killed.
Jalisco’s chief prosecutor, Luis Carlos Najera, said investigators believe an organized crime group was behind the double murder because of the way the kidnapping took place.
Security camera footage showed cars flanking the lawmaker’s SUV as a man in a red shirt points at the car’s window on the road outside Guadalajara.
Zacatecas attorney general Arturo Nahle said no bullets were found in the bodies or the car.
Authorities did not name any gang but Jalisco is a bastion of the Jalisco New Generation drug cartel. Nahle said the Gulf Cartel is present in Zacatecas.
Several local politicians have been attacked during Mexico’s drug war, with at least 30 mayors killed since 2006, but violence against federal lawmakers is less common.
A PRI lawmaker was killed in violence-plagued Guerrero state in 2011. At least five other federal legislators have been attacked since 2006.
Some 80,000 people have been killed since troops were deployed to crack down on drug cartels in 2006.
Najera said authorities bungled the response to the kidnapping, which had been reported by the lawmaker’s wife Monday afternoon.
“We are investigating the disastrous coordination between (police) corporations in the deputy’s kidnapping, which gave them (abductors) enough time to flee,” he said.
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This is why mi nuh come off nuh cruise ship weh dock pon any Mexican soil and mi husband think mi crazy.I come off any port with the itinerary but noooooooo not Meheeecoo
This little mexicans are short but they hunt in groups that makes them very dangerous…think about ants a single ant is not intimidating but a swarm of ants can eat you alive…..No Mexico, No Ecudor, No Guatemala and No Honduras even if issued a Delta life time pass….
Mexicans are very violent people and live extremely nasty and dem love walk ah beg; put out any piece ah ole furniture fe trash man pick up and dat shit gone clear before yuh even walk back inna yuh house #FACTS!
But bes believe they know how to throw a party!!
But Yep u brave fi guh a di party dem.U nuh fraid dem spray up di place cause a suh dem do dem tings
No cause my Mexican friends very decent people and mad cool, love dem like family, str8 love dem get..dem throw parties where yuh invite the whole family..all granmadda show up and turn up on the dance floor. I usually chill out with the kids dem but when dem start burn the salsa tracks ah dem time deh me and granny ah turn up togetha…NOW!! the ones dem weh live inna mi vicinity nuh nawmal ATALL!!..drink, war and lick gunshot afta dem one anedda and den siddung undo tree and drink more beer like ano nutten, loud wid wholeap ah picky all bout di place…who naan teef mi solar lights and yard ornaments ah dash beer bokkle inna mi yawd…would NOT recommend living around them atall atall :hoax2
When them ah bump them music and barbecuing at 3-4 am in the morning, sometimes mi cyaah badda call police cause the music too nice and the scent of the barbecue sweet mi nose; mi jus caulk plug mi ears ah galanag ah mi bed….
Unu eva siddung yet and watch documentaries on gun violence in Mexico/Hispanic countries?.Black on Black crimes nav nutten pa dem…mi watch man get killed as documentary is being filmed and people just carry on as if it’s the norm; that is a very traumatic way to live and function…
Watch ( Cocaine Cowboys Reloaded featuring Griselda Blanco..google Griselda Blanco )
Watch dem all the time especially I(ALMOST) GOT AWAY WITH IT.Usually they do the crime and run off to Mexico because a di non-extradition wid America
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I watched The First 48 one time *love that show* and one Mexican man walk up to 3 people point blank and shot them in the head execution style…right in front of the surveillance cameras, turn roun, huh back and finish dem off fe mek sure seh dem dead..massive man hunt deem and dem couldn’t find him til he voluntarily turned himself in *police dem did suh fraid ah the man *all talk it inna the camera* …when them ask him why he shot n’ killed 3 people, he said because fight break out inside his girlfriend’s nite club and when she tried to break up the fight she was shoved around and that made him snap because she is pregnant…so he killed 3 people because they pushed her during the scuffle…str8 faced, had no remorse what so ever and didn’t even apologize to the victims’ families…
@Yep! Griselda Blanco was the boss of all crime and cocaine boss as a woman. Shi neva ramp fi kill. She was feared by many. Dem sey shi has been linked to over 200 murders and she died the way she lived.
Yes…she said she personally chop up/ butcher one man ova ah long time grudge; had her goons find and kidnap him and bring him back to her place of business and literally chop up the man and stuff him inna one gift box wid bow tie and put him pan road side…had another man murdered at his son’s wake/funeral services…but she reaped what she sowed cause she was violently murdered at a butcher shop same way she murdered and butchered people…mek yuh blood run cold smh..
Yeppie d Mexicans dem ruthless, a remember there was this town in Mexico where nobody wanted to be d Sheriff because the drug kartels would kill and behead, in that town hundreds of thousands of people wld go missing and their headless corpse found, this 20 year old university student took d job as sheriff, not sure what was d outcome, but I hope she manage to stem d crime and didnt fall victim to the violence.
OneDrop, dem dangerous bad man