Mexican vigilante gunmen disarm local POLICE so they can rid town of feared Knights Templar drug cartel

Mexican vigilante gunmen disarm local POLICE so they can rid town of feared Knights Templar drug cartel

  • Residents living in fear of violent criminal gangs in south-west Mexico are taking matters into their own hands
  • Yesterday 600 vigilantes seized control of town of Paracuaro in Michoacan state in bloody battle that left one dead
  • Convoy of 'autodefensas', or self-defence groups, drove into the town controlled by drugs gang in blacked-out SUVs
  • They took back control from the Cabelleros Templarios (Knights Templar) gang which terrorised local residents
  • In neighbouring Guerrero state, vigilante group the Public Safety System marched in honour of first anniversary

By HARRIET ARKELL

PUBLISHED: 09:56 GMT, 6 January 2014 | UPDATED: 10:08 GMT, 6 January 2014

Hundreds of armed vigilantes stormed a Mexican town and arrested federal police in the latest bloody battle between residents, criminal gangs, and the police locals say are in league with the gang members.

Around 600 members of local 'autodefensas', or self-defence groups, stormed Paracuaro in the troubled Michoacan state yesterday in an attempt to seize control of the town back from the feared Caballeros Templarios (Knights Templar) drug cartel.

The battle was the latest in a long-running war between the drugs gang in Mexico's south-west and local residents who say state and federal police are not protecting them.

Small groups of local vigilantes took up arms and joined forces to storm Paracuaro, headquarters of the Knights Templar gang, where they arrested police officers and seized control of the town in a blaze of gunfire.

They drove into the town in black armoured vehicles shouting 'Don't be frightened, we are vigilantes', before expelling drugs traffickers, whom they accuse of kidnapping people and bribing them to make money.  Several gun battles were reported, leaving at least one dead.

Police officers, whom the vigilantes accuse of being in league with the cash-rich drug gangs, were rounded up by machine-gun toting locals, along with others suspected of associating with gang members, and a checkpoint was set up at the entrance to Paracuaro.

FULL STORY: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2534496/Mexican-vigilante-g...

Members of Guerrero state's Public Safety System marched yesterday in honour of their first anniversary - their region is a centre for drugs production

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