The four members of Spanish band Delorean were the victims of a kidnapping in Mexico by people who pretended to be police officers, according to news website Yucatán.
Spanish newspaper El País reported that the band was released last Tuesday, October 8 in Mexico City after being the victims of a "virtual" or "express" kidnapping. El Siglo de Torreón explains that the kidnappers pretended to be Mexican cops that asked the band to relocate to a different hotel and after doing so, they told the band it was actually a kidnapping.
According to the information published by El País, the Spanish band was in the Mexican capital after concluding a tour in Latin America. The band members were shocked when, after arriving at the hotel one of them, Guillermo Atraid, received a call from a member of the Los Zetas criminal cartel, asking him to go to another hotel with one of his colleagues, while the other two were sent to a different hotel.
The terrified band members received orders via telephone with threats such as "walk on the right-side sidewalk. If you don't obey we will shoot you", which made them think they were being followed. According to the news website, the young musicians were convinced they had been kidnapped and that their lives were in danger, while the kidnappers made constant calls to the families of the band demanding a payment of almost 300 thousand Euros to release them.
Ertzaintza authorities and the National Police Corps along with Mexican authorities managed to pinpoint the location of the band. The director of the Ertzaintza said "Initially we feared that the kidnapping was more complicated and tougher", and said that virtual kidnappings work thanks to the kidnapper's threats being effective on the victim.
After this event, the article says that Delorean will not continue its Latin American tour to present their new single "Apar" and instead went back to Spain.
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