On Tuesday, March 7, in Guayaquil, a new kidnapping was registered. And it would be Ana Pomagualli, a merchant from Riobambe who would be based in the ‘Puerto Principal’ for several years. The captors, apparently, through a #WhatsApp message, would have communicated with the victim’s relatives to demand around seventy thousand dollars to free her. Riobambeño kidnapped!
Video. Regarding the case, the video in which the victim appears asking for help has gone viral: “Please, son, help me, they are going to kill me! Please help me!” But, likewise, a video has also gone viral, the one that was captured at the location of the kidnapped woman, which is located in the Abel Castillo street sector, between Maldonado and Calicuchima (in the south center of Guayaquil). This new plagiarism was registered around 06:00 hours, in a warehouse near the “Gómez Rendón” municipal market, in the center-south of Guayaquil. According to the images, 3 armed men entered the business and took the woman; At the time of the incident, other people had been in the business and were “blown away” when they saw the armed men.
So far in 2023, eight kidnappings for extortion have been reported in Zone 8 (Guayaquil, Durán and Samborondón), and seven people have been released by the Judicial Police and the Anti-Kidnapping and Extortion Unit (Unase). The researchers point out that these crimes have something in common: the victims are businessmen, students, people who economically belong to the middle class. Currently, they are no longer targeted by the kidnappers, businessmen or wealthy people, for whom the criminals asked for hundreds of thousands of dollars, and did not get them…
The entry Riobambeña kidnapped! It was first published in Diario La Prensa Riobamba.