On the night of Thursday, August 4, a truck fidel wheel suffered a attempted assaultand although the robbery did not take place, two people from the team were wounds because they were attacked with Firearms by resisting.
Fidel Rueda was on his way with his team to Puebla, for a presentation that would take place next Saturday, August 6 at the Atoyatempan Fair when, as reported by the singer through his social networks, they suffered an attempted robbery around 9:45 p.m. on Thursday at the Mexico-Puebla highway up to the municipality of San Martin Texmelucanat kilometer 95. However, the driver would have tried to foil the assault by not stopping.
Due to this action, the criminals would have started shooting at them, in addition to they chased them for several minutes.
The chase stopped a few kilometers further on from where the attack began, in the community Santa Maria Moyotzingo, Well, there the local police intervened and foiled the robbery. They also offered help to injured people.
Thanks to this, came the paramedicswho gave first aid to the two injured, who are currently stableas reported by Fidel Rueda through a statement that he spread on his social networks.
“Yesterday, around 9:45 pm, we suffered an assault on the Mexico-Puebla highway. Unfortunately, two members of our team were injured by firearmright now they are out of danger thanks to the action of the Paramedics and Doctors who attended them”, reads the singer’s letter.
Likewise, they reported that they had already filed the corresponding complaints with the authorities, “leaving the legal actions in their hands.”
Fidel thanked his audience for the concern and support received during the early hours of the morning, when the persecution was made known.
According to local media reports, the injured were immediately transferred to the hospital. Comprehensive Hospital located in the El Moral community, as one of them was in serious condition. It also transpired that one of the wounded would be part of the group that accompanies Rueda, while the other would be the driver of the unit in which they were traveling.
Only last May the group moderate It was also a victim of insecurity in the country, as one of its trailers was stolen in ChalcoState of Mexico, when they were heading to the Puebla Fair. Puebla authorities immediately searched the truck to retrieve the gang’s equipment.
After a few hours, the governor of Puebla, Miguel Barbosaannounced that the State Attorney’s Office had successfully found the trailer and Moderatto was able to appear at his scheduled show.
Before them, the Original Lemon Band also suffered an attempted robbery on the highway, in Montereywhen they were heading to the United States in the early hours of January 12.
As reported by the group, the members were fine, but their truck was the one that suffered the attack, since the assailants they broke one of the windows of the vehicle because the driver did not stop.
And it is that the Banda el Limón would have been attacked according to a modus operandi which is becoming more and more common on roads, this consists of one of those involved throw a stone of a considerable size towards the bus windshield so that the driver is forced to brake. Once the truck not in motion, thieves enter and rob.
