A friend of Baptiste Lormand places a flower on an altar in homage to the French-Mexican businessman murdered in Mexico City.Teresa de Miguel
The Mexico City police have arrested three more people in the case of Baptiste Lormand, a Franco-Mexican businessman murdered along with his partner Luis Orozco.
The suspects were located in the del Toro neighborhood, in the Magdalena Contretaras mayor's office, along with a lot of high-value alcohol like the one that the victims were supposed to sell in their cars last Thursday night.
The three subjects join the suspect arrested on Monday, identified as the leader of a group of drug sales, extortion and homicide, as reported by
Radio Fórmula
this Tuesday.
Lordmand and Orozco were missing for two days and on Saturday their bodies with signs of torture were found in a gutter in the capital.
The police point to an assault to steal the alcohol they sold while the restaurateurs insist that it was another of the cases of extortion and collection of a flat suffered by the Polanco neighborhood, where the businessman had a restaurant.
Long weapons, at least two spherical grenades, doses of narcotics and several sacks with apparent marijuana have been found in the home where the search operation was carried out.
However, the most relevant clue is the batch of alcohol valued at at least 70,000 pesos ($ 3,500) seized during the arrest.
The main line of investigation that the police are considering is a hoax to force the victims to attend an alleged commercial meeting to steal the exclusive merchandise they were offering.
The police chief, Omar García Harfuch, have registered previous complaints from other businessmen that leads them to conclude that there is a crime business dedicated to this
modus operandi.
