“They took them alive, we want them back alive!” cried members of dozens of families who marched along the boardwalk of Avenida del Mar to the Valentinos roundabout to demand that the authorities locate their relatives, who were kidnapped by unknown persons.
The attorney general in the southern area of Sinaloa, Jesús Arnoldo Serrano, reported that in the last two weeks a total of 50 search files have been filed for people whose relatives filed a complaint for illegal deprivation of liberty.
Apart from these 50 cases, at least 164 forced disappearances have been documented in the central area of the state, from September 9, when the clashes between the two main factions of the Sinaloa cartel, Los Mayitos and Los Chapitos, began, to October 13, according to a report by the state Public Security Secretariat.
On Wednesday morning, fathers, mothers, sons, brothers, uncles, grandparents and friends of people kidnapped by alleged members of organized crime demonstrated on the boardwalk carrying banners and tarps with photos of their loved ones and messages asking for their safe and sound return.
Ángeles is the mother of Emanuel Garay Bernal, 20 years old, originally from the municipality of Concordia and a law student, who on October 11 went to Isla de la Piedra and since then his relatives have not heard from him.
The woman has participated in two demonstrations, the first during the opening of the baseball season; at the entrance of the Teodoro Mariscal stadium she demanded that the Morena governor Rubén Rocha Moya return her son.
She complained that she went to the facilities of the Vice-Prosecutor’s Office in the southern zone and they did not give her any help.
Meanwhile, the mother of the young Alejandro Trujillo said crying: My son was not a hitman; He was just fighting to get out of his addiction and be with his son; I went to see him on Sunday, September 20, and then they called me to tell me that armed men had taken him from the rehabilitation center.
In this context, a woman identified as Aritna Lucero N, 38 years old, who was kidnapped on Monday afternoon when she was with her two minor daughters in a hamburger restaurant in the tourist area of Mazatlán, was found yesterday dead, with signs of torture, at kilometer 155 of the Mexico 15 International Highway, near the town of El Limón de los Peraza.}
Source: jornada
