Police detain six members of a Latino gang for attacking a 13-year-old boy with machetes in Usera

Health workers treat a 13-year-old boy attacked by a gang in Carabanchel in February.

EMERGENCIES MADRID / EP

Agents of the Provincial Information Brigade of the National Police of Madrid arrested six members of the Dominican Don´t Play (DDP), the most active Latin gang currently in the region, on June 23 for attacking a group with machetes. of young people in a park in Usera on April 26. Among those attacked is a 13-year-old boy who was macheted when he fell to the ground, when he tried to flee the place, and who suffers serious injuries as a result. The police have no evidence that he belonged to any gang, like the rest of the boys who accompanied him and who also fled when they were attacked.

The detainees in the so-called Zeus operation, which became known this Monday, are four minors between 15 and 17 years old and two older, between 19 and 22. They are accused of a tentative crime of homicide, robbery with violence and organization criminal.

The minors have already gone to the disposition of the Prosecutor's Office and the older ones, both with prior records, have been brought to justice.

The oldest of those arrested has already entered prison, according to police sources.

In the four searches carried out in Madrid (2) and Cuenca (2), the agents found abundant weapons, among which were machetes and knives, telephones, as well as literature and symbols related to the gang.

According to the police, the group of young people attacked was playing cards on April 26, at around 9:30 p.m., in the park when “they were attacked by several individuals armed with machetes and knives, shouting:“ Love of 3! ″, The slogan of the DDP.

The boys tried to flee, but two of them were caught by the attackers and one came out very badly, with severe head injuries that have kept him in an induced coma for several days.

The investigation of the agents of the Provincial Information Brigade led them to identify the alleged perpetrators, "known members of the DDP and prominent positions of the gang," the investigators say.

In recent weeks there have been police operations against Latino gangs, which once again, with the lifting of the pandemic restrictions, seem to have recovered their activity. The police, eager to behead the leaders of these violent youth groups, estimate that there are a total of 300 members established mainly in the districts of the southern area of ​​Madrid, and now the most active are those of the Dominican Don´t Play and the Trinitarians, of Dominican origin; in front of the Latin King and the Ñetas, of Ecuadorian origin.

On June 11, agents from the same brigade detained six other members of the same gang, "the most active and numerous at the moment", in the Madrid district of Carabanchel.

The detained members, "all Spaniards with Latin American parents," according to police sources, were members of the

choir

- as the leaders are known internally - of this band.

In this case, they were young people between 18 and 21 years old and two minors, who are accused of crimes of robbery with violence and intimidation, serious threats and belonging to a criminal organization.

Attacks in Seseña (Toledo)

On the other hand, also on June 12, the Information Group of the Toledo Civil Guard Command, within the framework of an operation called Coyote, detained five other members of the DDP in Seseña (Toledo) "for the attempted murder carried out against another individual on April 20 in the “El Quiñón” urbanization, in the aforementioned town of Toledo. "The detainees accosted the victim in a premeditated and sudden manner, causing him very serious injuries by using large machetes and other bladed weapons," said the note from the armed institute. The attacked man had to be admitted to the Virgen de la Salud hospital in Toledo with a critical prognosis.

According to the agents, it was an action "as a consequence of the rivalry with other gangs settled in the area", which shows that these juvenile criminal organizations are beginning to cross the limits of the Community of Madrid, where they have traditionally settled by find your family ties in that region.