The Leader of Mexico's Knights Templar Cartel: 'We're a Necessary Evil' Jorge Calvillo - Latinos Post
go to original February 1, 2014

You might pass Servando "La Tuta" Gomez on the street and not look twice. But with a $2.5m bounty on his head, the charismatic leader of Mexico's Knights Templar drug cartel commands respect and fear. (Channel 4 News)

Sergio Gómez Martínez, also known as "La Tuta", the supreme leader of "The Knights Templar" cartel and one of Mexico's most wanted criminals, reappeared in the state of Michoacán to offer an exclusive interview for British network Channel 4 News.

.. In the interview, the leader of "The Knights Templar" accused the "Autodefensas" of causing the violence in the state and said that he and his cartel are a "necessary evil", claiming that if they didn't operate in Michoacán, other criminal groups would.

The Mexican criminal, known for the violent executions he has ordered in the region of Tierra Caliente, Michoacán, acknowledged that he's a criminal, but said that the government has the obligation of applying the law, not the armed civilians that in recent weeks have kicked out the cartel from various towns they used to dominate through fear and violence.

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