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A graffiti message on a wall in Ciudad Juárez warns of a car bombing if U.S. authorities do not look into alleged ties between Mexican federal police and drug traffickers, a police spokesman said Monday.
"Yes, another 'narcopinta' was spray-painted on a primary school wall Sunday night," Jacinto Seguro, a spokesman for the Juárez Municipal Police, told CNN, using the Spanish-language name for the message. "It threatens another car bombing in 15 days if the DEA and FBI don't investigate the federal police ties to El Chapo."
No one has claimed responsibility, he said, "but usually, when there are messages about 'El Chapo', they come from La Línea."
"El Chapo" refers to Joaquín "Chapo" Guzmán, leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel. La Línea is an extension of the Juárez cartel, made up in part of former Juárez police officers, according to authorities.
A spokeswoman for the FBI in El Paso did not immediately return a call.
Seguro said that in another incident of violence, gunmen Sunday night killed three patrons of a bar on a main street in Juárez. One of them was a university student at the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, he said.
And last Thursday, a car bomb killed three people in Juárez, authorities said. It was the first time a car bomb has been used to attack federal police, said the city's mayor, José Reyes Ferriz. Six people, including a news cameraman, were wounded in the blast, authorities said.
According to Seguro, the Juárez cartel claimed responsibility for the incident in a graffiti message found in downtown Juárez.
"What happened on September Avenue will keep happening to all the authorities who keep supporting El Chapo," said the message, written in black spray paint. "Sincerely − the Juárez cartel." The message concluded: "We still have car bombs."
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