Missing Youths Were Taken from Mexico City Bar, Attorney
Says
MEXICO
CITY – The 12 young people who have been missing since late last month in Mexico
City were taken from the bar where they had met up in the Zona Rosa tourist
district, attorney Ricardo Martinez told Efe on Thursday.
The investigators’ file “contains information that shows they were inside (the Heaven bar) and were, in fact, taken from there,” Martinez, who represents the families of the missing youths, said.
“I cannot tell you what this” information is because it is part of the sealed case file, the attorney, who examined the documents on Wednesday, said, adding that he had not seen any videos showing the group being led away from the bar.
Federal District Attorney Rodolfo Rios met with the victims’ relatives on Tuesday and played security videos for them that “show how some of the kids arrive in two vehicles, a red vehicle and a taxi, and get out,” the attorney said.
Martinez said he planned to meet with the DA on Friday to get a briefing on the state of the investigation.
An arrest warrant was obtained and served on three people who may be linked to the disappearance of the 12 young people, Rios said earlier this week.
The suspects – two men and a woman – were taken to the holding facility at the DA’s office.
The young people were led away from the Heaven bar in the Zona Rosa by masked gunmen on May 26, relatives and a young man who managed to escape said.
The victims, who were employed and liked to spend time at the bar, were led away from the establishment to waiting SUVs by men dressed in black who identified themselves as police officers, relatives said.
The victims are from Tepito, one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Mexico City and a center for sales of pirated goods.
One of the missing youths is Jerry Ortiz Ponce, a 16-year-old boy whose jailed father, Jorge Ortiz Reyes, is one of the leaders of the La Union gang, media reports said.
Ortiz Reyes is still running the criminal organization from prison, media reports said.
A rival gang may have staged the kidnapping to settle a score with La Union following the killing of a drug dealer in Mexico City two days before the youths disappeared, press reports said.
Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera said earlier this week that large drug cartels were not operating in the capital.
“We have not detected any trace of this,” the mayor said in response to questions from reporters. EFE
MEXICO
CITY – The 12 young people who have been missing since late last month in Mexico
City were taken from the bar where they had met up in the Zona Rosa tourist
district, attorney Ricardo Martinez told Efe on Thursday.The investigators’ file “contains information that shows they were inside (the Heaven bar) and were, in fact, taken from there,” Martinez, who represents the families of the missing youths, said.
“I cannot tell you what this” information is because it is part of the sealed case file, the attorney, who examined the documents on Wednesday, said, adding that he had not seen any videos showing the group being led away from the bar.
Federal District Attorney Rodolfo Rios met with the victims’ relatives on Tuesday and played security videos for them that “show how some of the kids arrive in two vehicles, a red vehicle and a taxi, and get out,” the attorney said.
Martinez said he planned to meet with the DA on Friday to get a briefing on the state of the investigation.
An arrest warrant was obtained and served on three people who may be linked to the disappearance of the 12 young people, Rios said earlier this week.
The suspects – two men and a woman – were taken to the holding facility at the DA’s office.
The young people were led away from the Heaven bar in the Zona Rosa by masked gunmen on May 26, relatives and a young man who managed to escape said.
The victims, who were employed and liked to spend time at the bar, were led away from the establishment to waiting SUVs by men dressed in black who identified themselves as police officers, relatives said.
The victims are from Tepito, one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Mexico City and a center for sales of pirated goods.
One of the missing youths is Jerry Ortiz Ponce, a 16-year-old boy whose jailed father, Jorge Ortiz Reyes, is one of the leaders of the La Union gang, media reports said.
Ortiz Reyes is still running the criminal organization from prison, media reports said.
A rival gang may have staged the kidnapping to settle a score with La Union following the killing of a drug dealer in Mexico City two days before the youths disappeared, press reports said.
Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera said earlier this week that large drug cartels were not operating in the capital.
“We have not detected any trace of this,” the mayor said in response to questions from reporters. EFE
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