A banner with a criminal message was found this Wednesday on Benito Juárez Avenue in Campeche, and police officers cordoned off the area.
A banner with threats, allegedly from a criminal group, appeared on Wednesday morning in the Fidel Velázquez housing unit. In the same area, a man was shot a few days ago while traveling in a taxi and died while receiving medical attention; it is not yet confirmed if both cases are related.
After the neighbors’ call for help, who discovered the banner hanging on the fence of an abandoned property on Benito Juárez Avenue, elements of the Secretariat of Protection and Citizen Security, as well as investigators from the Attorney General’s Office of the state of Campeche, arrived at the scene to secure the area, conduct the corresponding investigations, and remove the fabric containing the criminal message.
Dozens of onlookers gathered around the police mobilization, believing it was another attack, but they were asked to leave to avoid contaminating the evidence. It was reported that another similar banner was placed on the highway to Champotón and another in the Fidel Velázquez neighborhood of the Campeche capital; however, this was not confirmed.
In the text, an alleged criminal group claims responsibility for the banner; however, investigations are still ongoing. It is worth remembering that last year a series of supposed narco-banners appeared in the municipality of Carmen, and after investigations, it was confirmed that they were banners placed by political groups trying to intimidate the population for electoral purposes; despite the alleged evidence, no responsibilities were established, and no one was arrested for this cause.
The last banner with threats recorded in the capital city was documented last April, but days later, after reviewing surveillance cameras, state authorities revealed that it was the police themselves who placed it, as they were protesting against the state government in a movement that lasted four months.
Source: Por Esto
