They had everything ready to kill their target.

The plan, designed from Barcelona by the "supreme", that is, the chief, was going to be carried out by the "soldiers" of the "death squad" in Madrid, but the Civil Guard thwarted it in an

operation that has left the police headless. Latin band

Blood, characterized by its extreme violence.

And not only that.

The operation, which has lasted ten months, has meant the dismantling of the main "blocks" or "sets" of the band: the North, located in Gipuzkoa, Álava and Navarra and controlled from Irún;

that of Barcelona and that of Madrid.

The General Directorate of the Civil Guard has reported this Wednesday the details of the

Laya operation

, which has resulted in fourteen detainees, including the leaders, aged

between 18 and 34 years

.

Eleven of them are in prison by court order, to which must be added one of those arrested, who had already been in jail for a week before for crimes he had committed on a previous weekend.

Although

it settled in Spain in mid-2002

, controlled mainly by Dominicans, it was in 2009 when the Civil Guard dealt the first blow to the Blood in Torrevieja (Alicante), also in an operation with thirteen detainees.

Since then, it has continued to investigate this group, which, like the rest of the Latin gangs, has been settling in an important part of the geography, but especially in the communities of Catalonia, Madrid (more implanted in the Corredor del Henares) , The Basque Country, Castilla-La Mancha (in Toledo, especially) and, although less so, the Valencian Community, without stopping trying in others, such as Aragon.

As sources of the investigation have indicated to Efe, this gang is characterized by its extreme violence, to the point that they

use machetes to inflict the greatest possible damage

on their victims.

And, as is happening in other Latin "enemy" gangs,

their members are not all of Latin origin

.

Now they are recruited from other nationalities, such as Maghreb and Eastern European countries, but increasingly Spanish.

In addition, they resort to minors.

Given their inferior position in the hierarchy, they are induced by higher ranking members to abandon their families and commit crimes as a means of financing and to achieve higher status in the gang.

They also

recruit girls

(almost always

of Spanish nationality

), who are even sexually assaulted.

Robbery with violence and intimidation of people or establishments, brawls, drug trafficking, attempted murder, illegal possession of weapons ... are some of the crimes that are charged to those detained in this operation.

A botched murder

The intelligence work of the Civil Guard Information Service in recent months made it possible to decipher the structure of the gang in Spain and verify that decisions were made from Barcelona.

There the "supreme" settled, a man who already had a record and who had been in prison convicted as the mastermind of a murder.

The "supreme" was the one who commissioned the "bloc" of Madrid to carry out a murder

in this city.

In addition to reprimanding them for not having firearms, the chief gave them a very short time to carry it out.

The agents mounted a device to protect the target and managed to locate those who were going to be their executors, convinced that they had to commit the crime because otherwise, they would be the victims.

Finally,

the Civil Guard "aborted" the plan

and arrested three members of the Madrid "set".

More than 20 blocks in Spain

There is no "official" figure for the members of the Blood band in Spain, although an approximate calculation could be made.

They could add up to 400 if each of the 20 or so blocks gathers an average of 20 members

.

But they are only approximate data.

This gang was

born in Los Angeles, in California

(USA), in the 70s. Its members use the color red, as a symbol of blood, in their clothing, although when they are going to commit criminal acts they usually resort to brown, which for them it represents war, as the sources consulted indicate.

And they wear Calvin Klein brand clothing for just one "compelling" reason for them.

They are the initials of his greatest enemy, the Crips (the C) and of his objective, kill (the K): kill them.

Although the Civil Guard considers the current leadership of the Bloods in Spain dismantled, the

investigation remains open

and more arrests are not ruled out.

In the Laya operation, in addition to the Information Service, agents of the GAR (Rapid Action Group), the ARS (Reserve and Security Group) and the Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Álava and Guipuzcoa commanderies have participated.

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