Prison staff, National Guard end riot after 3 hours.
16 killed.
By Snoopy on January 6, 2020
A friendly New Year’s Eve soccer match between teams
representing two rival cartels in a Mexican prison turned into a bloodbath
after a controversial tackle escalated into a gun fight.
For over a decade,
Cieneguillas, a medium-security prison in the Mexican state of Zacatecas, has
been home to hundreds of dangerous criminals representing no less than six of
Mexico’s main drug cartels. In an attempt to relieve the pressure of the
rivalries between these criminal organizations, the prison leadership
authorized a soccer game between teams representing Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel,
on New Year’s Eve, but what was meant to be a friendly celebration abruptly
turned into a deadly shootout, and not the penalty kind…
After a whole day of being allowed to receive visits from
their families, inmates gathered in the Cieneguillas prison yard for the highly
anticipated soccer match between members of Los Zetas and the Gulf
Cartel. Local news sources reported that
everything was going well until a
controversial tackle in the penalty box of one of the teams got some inmates so
riled up that they took out their guns and started shooting their rivals. No
one knows exactly how the guns got into the prison, but apparently some of the
shooters sported long-barreled weapons as well.
It took prison staff and
National Guard forces over three hours to quell the prison riot which left 16
people dead and another five seriously wounded. A total of four firearms were
seized during the subsequent checks, as well as several knives, hammers and
mobile phones.
Just two days after the
bloody soccer match, Cieneguillas was once again rocked by violence as
a member of the Gulf Cartel was murdered by his own gang, allegedly for
treason. The prison has long been seen as a red flag in Mexico’s penitentiary
system, but authorities are struggling to keep the peace among the over 1,000
members inmates, including many members of rival criminal organizations.
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