Mexico, shots in a festival of techno: he dies a Italian – New venetian

There is also an Italian, and milanese origins, among the five victims of a shooting in Mexico. An armed man entered the nightclub Blue Parrot of the well known tourist resort in Playa Del Carmen, where took place the closing event of the festival of electronic music more known in the caribbean, the Bpm, and fired. In addition to Italian, are dead, a colombian and two canadians, among them there were also some members of the staff who sacrificed themselves to save the customers of the club. According to the public prosecutor of the state of Quintana Roo Angel Pech, there will also be fifteen wounded, one in serious condition.

Mexico, shooting during the festival: the people hiding under the tables Shootout during the closing night of the Bpm Festival in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, inside the Blue Parrot. In the video, the participants of the festival lying on the ground, under tables and sofas during the confusion which followed the armed attack

Excluding terrorism, 4 stopped. The dynamic of the attack is still uncertain. The prosecutor has not excluded that it was a terrorist attack, while the Cristina Torres, the mayor of the town, has told the press that the police stopped four people in the hours following the shooting. Torres pointed out that one of the hypotheses examined by the responsible of the survey is that it was a customer at the Blue Parrot, which he shot in a local after refusing to pay the bill, but does not rule out the possibility of a link with the networks of drug trafficking. The first to give the news was the dj scottish Jackmaster, also picked up by the british newspaper the Guardian, in a tweet: “Someone has entered the club of Playa del Carmen and began to shoot, 4 to 5 dead and many injured. Just stay in your fucking hotels if you’re here for the Bpm.”

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An Italian colony. Playa del Carmen, on the eastern coast of the peninsula of the Yucatan, is one of the most famous tourist resorts of the so-called Riviera Maya, overlooking the Caribbean Sea in the mexican state of Quintana Roo. half way between the mass tourism of Cancun, to the north, and the mayan ruins of Tulum, south of the city, overlooking the island of Cozumel, Playa del Carmen has known a strong development of tourism in the last decade, that has translated into a boom in attendance: in 2003, almost 50 thousand inhabitants, and now it has more than 200 thousand. Among these, the italians constitute the main colony of foreigners: until the end of 2011, in Playa del Carmen appeared to date so easy even a newspaper in Italian, the Sun of Italy. The locality, as the whole Yucatan mexican – where you can find three destinations in the top ten of holidays abroad by american tourists -and had been so f ar excluded from the wave of criminal violence unleashed by the cartels, local drug traffickers.

Mexico, shooting during a festival: the people are running away in the street Several pistol shots were fired in the course of the closing night of the BPM Festival in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. The shooting would take place inside the Blue Parrot, one of the local in which they held the festival. There would be some deaths. In the video, the people fleeing in the streets adjacent to the premises