Where until a few hours ago music was playing and alcohol flowing, now there are two bullet holes in the wall and three wasps that pile up to suck up the few traces of blood that the cleaning services have not removed.
On the floor, three empty Möet Chandon bottles, a piece of police cordon, and an empty, bloodstained 12-ounce bottle of water.
This is the scenario left behind by the shooting murder of SHMR, a 21-year-old Dominican who died in the early hours of Monday at the gates of the Caña Brava nightclub in Fuenlabrada.
The south of Madrid had not yet recovered from the almost identical murder of Bori, a 19-year-old Venezuelan in the neighboring municipality of Alcorcón just 24 hours earlier.
proximity, both spatial and temporal,
and the similarity in the execution caused both crimes to be investigated at first as if one were a consequence of the other, but several police sources consulted by EL PAÍS assure that this is not the case.
However, the fact that the firearm was present in both cases represents a script twist in homicides of these characteristics in Madrid, where the knife is the main means of taking life.
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"According to the first investigations, we are inclined to think that the first of the crimes was motivated by drugs, although we do not rule out that the participants in the fight were also related to gangs," says a Police source.
"But the second one does look like a full blown knockdown, there was no fight inside."
“Fall” is the term used by members of violent youth gangs to describe the surprise attack they carry out on members of rival groups.
According to the information collected, the attackers arrived "hooded and with balaclavas", one with a machete and the other with a gun.
Police took samples from a metallic blue BMW parked outside the club.
The aggressors fled on foot, so the recordings of the security cameras in the area will be essential to know more details of their physiognomy.
Already during the day, the victim's brother has approached that point along with other relatives.
"He had nothing to do with gangs, everything they say is a lie," he assured journalists behind the police cordon in an understandable state of nerves.
In the crime at the Fuenlabrada nightclub, the attackers waited for the Citizen Security police officers who were present that night in the surroundings to leave to avoid problems during the course of the concert that was being held at the venue.
The star singer of the evening was a rapper known for having dedicated songs to dead members of the Trinitarios gang and for writing lyrics that mention this gang.
The place was packed and the agents suspected that there could be an altercation, but nothing happened until the nightclub was closing.
At the concert that this rapper had offered just a day before in Tenerife, a fight broke out among the attendees inside the venue that interrupted the performance shortly after it began.
Blood of the deceased under a police cordon, in the vicinity of the Caña Brava nightclub, in Fuenlabrada. Gustavo Valiente (Europa Press)
In addition to the fatality, the brawl at the Fuenlabrada nightclub leaves three others injured as a result.
One of them, 31 years old and with a gunshot wound to the shoulder, had nothing to do with the fight.
That is one of the reasons for alarm that the main weapon of both crimes is the pistol, because it is easier for a shot to hit anyone who is at the scene of the aggression.
“We do know that some chapters [the groups in which gang members are organized] have some pistols, although the most common are machetes and knives.
But we did detect some time ago that all the older members, who have already made the leap from the gang to organized drug trafficking, have access to firearms through the black market,” explains a police source.
"We must bear in mind that in recent months we have seized thousands of machetes and knives, and we continue to do so," confirms a second voice from the Police.
According to the latest balance of the prevention plan against gangs deployed by the Government Delegation, the Police and the Civil Guard have seized half a thousand weapons.
The improvised altar to Bori, one of the mortal victims of the first weekend of October, shot to death in Alcorcón.PPA
Ballistic analyzes will allow more information to be obtained about the pistols used.
“Sometimes they modify blank pistols, but the barrel of these cannot withstand many detonations due to the gases given off by the bullets.
For this reason, it is almost certain that in the second crime in which there were a large number of shots, the pistol used was real”, advances a police source.
In both cases, the aggressors aimed at the heads of their victims, so the Summa 112 paramedics could do little to revive the two men.
In the Fuenlabrada crime there are no detainees at the moment, and in the Alcorcón crime three were arrested on Sunday.
One of them had been injured in the brawl and required medical attention.
Given the concern in the municipalities, the Government Delegation has reported that local security meetings will be held this Wednesday in both locations.
The expert investigators in youth gangs emphasize that neither of the two victims was identified as active members of any group, although they admit that they could have sympathy for some and that both were in places frequented by gang members.
The Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, unlinked the two crimes.
In the place where the first of them fell, in Alcorcón, an improvised altar of candles and graffiti on the walls pays homage to Bori.
This Monday, two girls stopped to contemplate it and continued on their way.
"I knew him by sight, but it's not true about the gangs," she commented almost without stopping.
Among the graffiti, however, are the initials ADS, which mean "Blood Love", a motto of the Bloods gang.
Just a few meters away, at the entrance to the alley where the victim was shot, the impacts of the bullets continue in the portable toilet used by the workers who work in the nearby building.
Here, too, the cleaning services have diligently erased the remains of the murder, although the white cement that joins the floor tiles is still stained red.
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