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Servando «La Tuta» Gómez, is considered the leader of the «Knights Templar».
Mexican media report the death of Aquiles Gómez Martínez, brother of Servando Gómez, alias «La Tuta», the main leader of the Knights Templar cartel, which operates mainly in the state of Michoacán.
As was learned, the lifeless body of Aquiles Gómez was found in a room of a residence in the city of Lázaro Cárdenas, one of the main ports in the country. They featured a shot.
Subsequently, the authorities indicated that Gómez Martínez had committed suicide when cornered by the police forces.
According to Alberto Najar, a BBC Mundo journalist in Mexico, Aquiles Gómez Martínez was considered, along with his brothers Flavio and Luis Felipe, one of the main leaders of Los Templarios in the Pacific coast region of Michoacán.
However, his position within the cartel was less than that of La Tuta.
teachers
According to journalistic versions, a pistol and 50 bullets were found at the site. The body was sent to a funeral home where an autopsy is being performed; The place is guarded by the military.
The port of Lázaro Cárdenas, where Aquiles reportedly lived, is in the same region where his brother Servando is wanted: the mountainous area between the states of Michoacán and Guerrero.
Some 1,500 federal, state and military police, aided by self-defense groups, are in charge of locating La Tuta, who is still the main leader of the Templarios.
Aquiles Gómez had a degree in primary education, a degree higher than his brother Servando who only graduated as a teacher. Both studied at the Regional Center for Normal Education in Arteaga, in Michoacán.
self defense
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Mexican military forces have been chasing the leaders of the Knights Templar.
Juan Carlos Pérez Salazar, BBC Mundo correspondent in Mexico, recorded that in February 2012 a self-defense movement originated to combat the abuses committed by the Knights Templar.
In less than a year, the self-defense groups seized much of the territory controlled by the self-defense groups and surrounded the city of Apatzingán, which they found to be the center of the cartel.
In early 2014, the Mexican government reached an agreement with most of the self-defense groups to legalize them as rural guards.
At the end of May of this year, in the state of Querétaro, Enrique «Kike» Plancarte, the second most important capo of the Knights Templar, was killed by the Navy.
However, «La Tuta» has so far managed to evade the siege that the authorities and the former self-defense groups have placed on it.
