2023-08-20 17:41:11
Mexico. From our correspondent.
Five kneeling young men, fists tied; blindfolded, terror as a field of vision. Kidnappers hit them, threaten them with heavy weapons, then demand that they kill each other. The video confirms the abduction of the five young people who disappeared on August 11 in Lagos de Moreno (State of Jalisco, center). Aged 19 to 22, they had been friends since childhood.
These images, which bear the seal of the cartels, have moved all of Mexico, even if its inhabitants are used to assassinations; 32,000 people were killed there in 2022. For the moment, it is difficult to put forward a motive: “It could be terrorism, a way of sending a message. This region is highly contested.advances Andrés Sumano, professor of security at the College of Mexico.
Because terror reigns in the state of Jalisco, plagued by the Cartel of Sinaloa and Jalisco Nueva Generación. Since 2006, Mexico has been ravaged by the government’s declared war on the cartels, which has left more than 350,000 dead and thousands missing.
The dissemination of the extract above all illustrated a way specific to cartels of communicating. “The videos on the networks, the messages written on signs or sheets, serve to convey messages. It is a show of force to make fear reign”, explains Andrés Sumano. And it sometimes affects innocent victims.
The Jalisco Public Prosecutor’s Office discovered on Thursday the charred remains of four people north of Lagos. The families of the missing boys have been able to examine them, but they claim to be “almost certain” that it’s not about them. The five young people remain untraceable today.
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