Chivis Martinez Borderland Beat
The following is the translation of a recorded testimony given by a witness who was a patron at the Bar Heaven, when 12 people were taken in a mass kidnapping in Tepito on May 26th.
This was difficult to transcribe I welcome any corrections that are relevant to the witness account.
Below is footage at the time of kidnapping
Recording I
“This is the
complete truth…”
“We were
sitting down, then the manager; El Polo arrived and told us that an operative
was going to come because the owner of the Black was hit, so we were all thrown
out…”
“My friend
and I were the last ones to get out …”
“They were
going out of the door of the Heaven (bar), they were trying to exit and that’s
when the convoy arrived…”
“I never saw
anybody, I was inside and when it arrived, my friend closed the door and we
were the ones that managed to get out through the roof terrace”
“The police need
to find the manager of the Heaven, he is called El Polo”
Recording II
“At one point in time I saw the entire ruckus and I started to run inside.…
This is
not an operative; there is no need to enter with guns”
“I was with
Gabriela (Reyes Martinez) and with the ones at the other table…”
“Then they were
doing an operative and one by one they were going out but I was the last one because
I was saying goodbye to all my friends and that’s when it started…”
“So when I got out I didn’t see Polo (manager) at the front entrance of the bar Heaven.”
"I didn't see him anymore..." "Josue and his brother were taken, they were with the blonde girl wearing a blue dress, I don't know if they took her too because I think they were searching for her."
“We were told
that an operative was going to take effect, so we were exiting one by one, the
music was turned off and we were going out one by one (inaudible)”
“Outside
Heaven, I saw the disturbance…”
“Honestly, I
was very bad, I saw what was happening and I got scared and since my buddy ran out I did the
same thing. We were hiding for an hour and when everything ended, we went
inside the bar but it was already closed, so we had to climb through the back
(terrace)…”
“The manager
should be located (contacted), he is responsible for all this! He must have
something and probably it was he was who sent them (the convoy), he said: go out! I’ll
make you pay…” (This is confusing)
“We were the
only ones there, the last ones; and there were some guys that were able to get out
when they announced that they were going to close”
“They even
took themselves some beer, they were the first ones to go out but we were
paying for the bottle”
“My buddy was
the one who used to talk with the manager but he doesn’t answer the phone calls
anymore”
“I’m going to
tell you something: Did you know that one at the bar Black who was killed?
“I think it
was the manager of Heaven who did it, because he had gone to find us when we
managed to get out”
“My buddy
called him when all of this happened and he told him: Now what Polo? don’t
fuck with me, what is all that fucking shit about? what about my friends?”
“He says: No
bro, I don’t know, I don’t know- kill them- kill them all.. And my friend asked:
what do you mean kill them all?”
“I don’t know
who did it and then he hung up and I didn’t know of anything else…”
“And he also
told me that he was the one that killed the guy from the Black (bar)”
“All I know
is that he is called Polo, he is a short guy, he always wears suits, and he has
hair with a lot of gel”
“He is a
short guy that uses suits… He is dark skinned, short, always uses suits and he
was always in the bar Heaven and everybody knows him…”
