Organized Crime Kidnaps Automotive Armoring Experts
By Sol Prendido 6/06/2023 10:49:00 PM
In Mexico, cases of the abductions of automotive armor technicians and professionals are more frequent, this is the reason.
Rafael Trejo Vázquez: The seizure of armored vehicles used by organized crime revealed that criminals have engaged in kidnapping armor experts to manufacture the so-called Monstruo vehicles.Entrepreneurs of the security sector have denounced before the state prosecutor's office the abduction of automotive armoring technicians and professionals.
Héctor Romero Sánchez: Unfortunately, technicians are being kidnapped so that they can go and teach them how to make professional armoring because what they’re doing is considered custom work. We are aware that criminals are kidnapping technicians. They are professionalizing themselves in armoring type issues.
Rafael Trejo Vázquez: Investigations have revealed clandestine workshops where armoring experts are subjected to forced labor.
Héctor Romero Sánchez: Once the kidnapping is committed, they take them to their workshops. Those workshops can be in different parts of the Mexican Republic. And in the cities where it is more accessible in terms of having all the elements and tools. Once they have their victims there they obviously bring people to be taught. If our fellow technicians are lucky they are set free and leave. Unfortunately, when they’re not so lucky they are killed.
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http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2023/06/organized-crime-kidnaps-automotive.html
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Abductions of automotive armour technicians is on the rise throughout Mexico, and the gangs are then forcing the experts to teach their criminals how to kit out vehicles for turf wars
By Leigh Mcmanus
15:52, 7 JUN 2023
The aim is to manufacture the so-called 'Monstruo vehicles,' or 'Monstor vehciles, otherwise known as 'Narco Tanks' (Image: FORO/Borderland Beat)
Mexican drug cartels and crime gangs are reportedly kidnapping car armouring experts and forcing them to create 'monster vehicles' for their illicit operations.
Borderland Beat reported that abductions of automotive armour technicians is on the rise throughout Mexico, and the gangs are then forcing the experts to teach their criminals how to kit out vehicles.
The title reported that investigations have revealed clandestine workshops where armoring experts are subjected to forced labor.
Other Mexican outlets have interviewed those on the frontline of the issue. Héctor Romero Sánchez, who works in the security sector, said: "Once the kidnapping is committed, they take them to their workshops. Those workshops can be in different parts of the Mexican Republic.
More:
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/drug-cartels-kidnapping-car-armouring-30176823