Peruvian police detained a gang using Nazi symbols for blackmail, and found Pablo Escobar painting.
The Peruvian police detained a blackmail group on Tuesday, which used Nazi symbols to intimidate the victims. In addition to weapons and explosives in the houses of the suspects, the authorities seized approximately one hundred stickers with an eagle motif with the Swastika – the logo of the Nazi Party Adolf Hitler. This is reported to TASR, according to the AFP report.
The police arrested five suspects of Colombia and Venezuela during the raids in two residential houses in the capital of Lima and neighboring Huarale. They also found the oil painting of the deceased Colombian narcobarone Pablo Escobar, who was a bundle of American dollars from the breast pocket of the shirt.
Equipped evidence with Nazi symbols
According to police chief Juan Mundac, the police are investigating whether the secured stickers are the same as on the houses and cars of victims of blackmail. Local prosecutor José Silva claims that the gang threatened several entrepreneurs and one judge in the Huaral area.
Peru is currently struggling with a sharp increase in gang violence, especially murder associated with blackmail. Criminal gangs, such as the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua, work throughout the Latin America. They are blamed for mass blackmail, asking ransom for the whole community of people and killing people who refuse to pay for protection.
History of similar interventions
The police have intervened several times against gangs using Nazi symbolism. In May 2023, the authorities seized 58 kilograms of cocaine designed to export to Belgium packed in the flag of the Third Reich and stamped by Adolf Hitler.
