Mexican cartel responsible for BPM festival shooting

A Mexican cartel has claimed responsibility for the shooting at the Blue Parrot nightclub during BPM Festival in Playa Del Carmen on Monday.

Three security workers and two club-goers were killed and 15 injured during the shooting.

Four “narcoblankets” appeared in Playa del Carmen Tuesday morning bearing the following text (translated from Spanish):

This is a sign that we are already here because you didn’t align PHILLIP -BPM, it is the beginning we are going to cut the heads of Golfos, PELONES and chapulines, Atte [Sincerely] el FAYO Z from the old SCHOOL

The blankets appear to address the festival’s Canadian co-founder Phillip Pulitano and were signed in spray-paint by Fayo Z- reportedly the nickname of Rafael del Angel Velez Morales, the known leader of the Los Zetas cartel.

The Zetas cartel operates in the northern region of Quintana Roo, within which Playa Del Carmen resides. It is considered one of the most dangerous and violent cartels within Mexico by the US government.

According to Billboard, Quintana Roo’s attorney general, Miguel Angel Pech, said investigators were looking into whether the banner referred to the BPM music festival or one of its organisers.

Playa Del Carmen’s mayor has announced that all future electronic music festivals in the city are cancelled.