2023-07-01 00:39:45
– Release of the 16 police employees kidnapped Tuesday in Mexico
About 1,000 law enforcement personnel were involved in operations to rescue 16 hostages kidnapped in southern Mexico on Tuesday.
Posted today at 02:39
The governor of the state of Chiapas did not give details on how the police employees were released.
AFP
Sixteen Mexican police employees kidnapped on Tuesday in the southern state of Chiapas were released on Friday, state governor Rutilio Escandon announced.
“I want to announce to the people of Chiapas and Mexico that the 16 colleagues of the (Secretariat for Citizen Security and Protection) kidnapped were released this followingnoon,” the governor said on Twitter. Local TV channels broadcast live the reunion between the released people and their families.
Few details
On Twitter, the governor also thanked “president @lopezobrador_ (Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador), the Mexican army, navy, national guard, prosecutors and state police for their collaboration”, without giving any details. details of how the police employees were released.
A thousand members of the state and federal security forces have participated since Wednesday in operations to rescue the hostages, kidnapped in Ocozocoautla while they were traveling on a bus following their day of work. Of the 33 passengers, the 17 women also on board the bus had been released.
Videos in which the victims appear were then broadcast by Mexican media. In one of them, one of the hostages had explained that the kidnappers were demanding the resignation or dismissal of three Chiapas police chiefs, accused of holding a woman hostage as part of a secret agreement with a another armed group.
“Accomplices”
In response, the Mexican president had offered Thursday to open an investigation into the three police chiefs on the condition that the kidnappers release the hostages. “The state authority and we (the federal government, editor’s note), will also investigate the behavior of the three officials who are accused of being accomplices” of an armed group, he said at a press conference.
The region of Ocozocoautla, where clashes between police and armed criminals have recently multiplied, is particularly known to be a transit zone for illegal immigration and drug trafficking.
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