Caged cartel boss moans he is ‘tortured and starved’ in notorious Mexico jail

A Mexican drug lord has been granted safety from a federal decide after he claimed he was a sufferer of “cruel and inhuman treatment” whereas in jail.

Servando Gómez, often known as ‘La Tuta’ (The Teacher), 57, complained he was being tortured to a district court docket in Mexico City on Tuesday final week.

The final recognised chief of the Knights Templar gang, Gómez was captured by Mexican authorities in February 2015 and brought straight to the infamous high-security ‘El Altiplano’ jail.

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But now the onerous man has accused the authorities of the jail of “refusal to provide food, isolation and torture ”, Infobae reviews. The decide overseeing the case dominated there needs to be somebody stationed at ‘El Altiplano’ with a view to “attest to the physical integrity and condition” of Gómez.

‘El Altiplano’ boasts metre-thick partitions and has restricted airspace outdoors whereas armoured personnel carriers wait close by to guard it from a possible assault. The high-security slammer was regarded as impenetrable till 2015 when Joaquín ‘El Chapo Guzmán’ legged it by a tunnel, a daring escape full with a bike that seems on the Netflix TV present El Chapo.

Before getting into drug trafficking Gómez was a instructor and farmer, incomes him his nickname ‘La Tuta’. Investigations by the Attorney General’s Office (PGR) point out that ‘La Tuta’ was a part of the notorious gang Familia Michoacana.

Police spent months gathering intelligence for the operation and reportedly seized close by properties within the weeks main as much as Gomez’s seize in 2015.

After month’s spent gathering intelligence, authorities mentioned they had been led to the drug lord who was captured with out a shot being fired, by following one in every of his messengers.

Several weapons, together with a grenade launcher had been additionally captured, as had been eight of his associates and his brother. On Twitter, former Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto declared the arrest had strengthened the rule of regulation.

In December 2022, he was sentenced to 47 years in jail for crimes towards well being and organised crime. Mexican federal police now guard one of many ranches of the drug lord.

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