After his kidnapping and release, Don José Ventura Castillo, a restaurant owner, and his family decided to leave Tamaulipas. The man denied that he had any debt, but he believes that the criminals’ ultimate idea was to harm his daughter, who is a substitute senator.
The 78-year-old man recounted the way in which he was kidnapped, and the way in which his captors gave him instructions to stay alive in his captivity. He assured that the objective all along was to collect a ransom.
Don José Ventura Castillo explained that on July 31, when he was going home, he was intercepted by a black car, from which armed men got out.
“They blindfolded me and kidnapped me. I still have some signs where they tied me up and blindfolded me. They told me it was for a debt that I owed to a character, two million pesos, which I owed six months ago, but they told me that because I don’t owe anyone, they wanted a ransom,” he said. The kidnappers agreed to negotiate the ransom with his daughter, Verónica Castillo, who is a substitute for the newly elected senator, and they had even indicated that she had to go and collect the ransom.
“But more than anything I think they wanted to harm my daughter, because they wanted her to take the money, and they always told me if someone follows her we are going to kill everyone who goes, police for everyone.”
A little more than 24 hours after the case was made public on social media, and activist Delia Quiroga, spokesperson for the March 10 Search Collective, asked for support to help in the search and rescue of the businessman,
Don José was released and arrived home alone. Ventura Castillo said that he and his family decided to leave Tamaulipas, because it is the worst thing that can happen to a human being, however the investigation file remains, because there is a complaint and three detainees, although one of these appeared dead with blows to the body a few days after entering the Reynosa prison.
Source: milenio
