Film students tortured and dissolved in acid after horror mistake | World | News
A group of film students were abducted, tortured and dissolved in acid by a cartel after inadvertently inciting the bloodthirsty gang. Javier Salomón Aceves Gastélum, Jesús Daniel Díaz and Marco Ávalos, all in their 20s, were creating a short film at a house in the state of Jalisco in western Mexico for a university assignment.
On their journey back home, their car broke down and they got out to investigate the issue. Suddenly, they were encircled by two trucks and several members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) disguised as police officers.
The CJNG had mistaken them for members of a rival gang – and the students were reportedly filming at a ranch which was under surveillance by CJNG members who were on the lookout for a rival gang leader.
The students were apprehended and taken to a house in the town of Tonala in 2018. Javier was brutally questioned before being beaten to death – at which point the cartel decided to murder his two friends as well.
To eliminate the evidence, the CJNG then assigned one of its recruits with the task of dissolving the bodies in acid, reports the Mirror.
Mexican rapper Christian Palma Gutiérrez, better known as QBA, was paid 3,000 pesos ($160; £115) a week by the CJNG and was recruited by a friend to work for the wicked gang.
Gutiérrez – who has over 315,000 subscribers on YouTube – released several music videos shot in impoverished neighbourhoods of Guadalajara, the capital of Jalisco.
One of the disturbing songs features a bloodied man lying on the floor with his hands bound.
With tracks bearing titles such as “Death Has No Schedule”, Gutierrez performs songs about violence, firearms and narcotics in a threatening style. In 2014, five individuals connected to the CJNG received sentences of 75 years imprisonment each from a federal court, convicted of aggravated kidnapping and murdering the three students.
The CJNG has grown swiftly throughout Mexico in recent years, operating predominantly in the western regions of the nation. Its operatives regularly perpetrate horrific acts of brutality to frighten their adversaries.
The criminal organisation has brought down a military helicopter using a rocket-propelled grenade, murdered hundreds of government officials and has displayed the corpses of its victims hanging from bridges to terrify its competitors.
It has also compelled new members to consume human remains and perform decapitations in its notorious “terror schools”. One unnamed recruit previously told DailyBeast.com: “I’ve been there and there was a lot of [cannibalism]. They recruit them and then they start working on them.”
Initially, CJNG operatives are instructed how to sever their victims’ fingers and toes, amongst the cartel’s favoured methods of torture.
The source added: “They are given a choice of one of those pieces to eat in front of the boss. You have to do it without reacting or vomiting or you are beaten.
If you didn’t want to [eat human flesh] they wouldn’t let you leave, they had you there. “.
