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 News Around the Republic of Mexico | June 2007 
Police Find 3 Unexploded Grenades in Mexico City Subway
 Associated Press
| | Mexico City’s subway system is one of the world’s busiest, serving about 3.9 million passengers a day. |
Mexico City — Police found unexploded grenades in two Mexico City subway stations Friday, and said the explosives were accompanied by messages against the “Zetas,” a gang of hit men tied to the Gulf drug cartel.
The three grenades — which the city’s Public Safety Department said were operable, but meant to be fired by a grenade launcher — were found Friday in gift-bags marked “Danger” and left on platforms at two stations on the city’s south side. One bag contained two gift boxes, each containing a grenade.
Mexico City’s subway system is one of the world’s busiest, serving about 3.9 million passengers a day.
The Zetas are engaged in a bloody turf battle with the rival Sinaloa cartel that has left hundreds dead. But most of those deaths have occurred in a few provincial states, while Mexico City has largely been spared the kind of drug-gang battles that have terrorized other cities.
The grenades appeared to be part of a wave of threats against the Zetas that appeared across the Mexican capital. Hours earlier Friday, at least two banners were found strung across busy thoroughfares in the capital with threatening messages.
"Attention, all Zetas, get out of Guadalajara, I'm tired of tossing you into sulfuric acid, if you keep it up I'll toss you and your family in," local media quoted one of the banners as saying, before police quickly removed them.
A city public safety spokesman who was not authorized to speak on the record said one man had been detained after he was found hanging up a banner next to one bearing an anti-Zeta message, but police were still investigating whether he was linked to the first banner.
Mexico City Public Safety Secretary Joel Ortega said it was too early to say whether the drug gunmen have moved to the capital. “It could be ... somebody who wanted to get attention,” he said. |
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