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April, the month with most kidnappings in Veracruz, 24 total: Attorney General

- From then they have started to decreased, 10 in July; they have arrested 126 kidnappers
- The construction of the Specialized Unit to fight kidnapping in Xalapa has already started

Juan Luis Cornejo 21/08/2014

alcalorpolitico.com

Regarding kidnapping cases, the State Attorney General of Justice, Luis Angel Bravo Contreras, reported that during the first semester of the year, they had 93 kidnapping cases.
 
During a press conference in the World Trade Center of Boca del Rio, he indicated that April was the month with more kidnappings, with the registration of 24 cases, diminishing to 14 on May and July, and going down to 10 cases on July.
 
"Estas cifras representan un descenso de casi 60 por ciento en relación con el mes de referencia. Esto no es producto de la casualidad, pues de acuerdo a las tendencias el secuestro tuvo un repunte generalizado y comenzó a estabilizar y lo más importante, a descender", expresó.
 
“These numbers represent a drop of almost a 60 percent in relation to April. This is not because of chance, and according to the tendencies kidnapping had a generalized rise and it was stabilized, and most important, it started to decrease,” he said.
 
He added, “recently a civil association that monthly monitors this type of delinquency, recognized that this decreasing tendency and the done evaluation manifested that it was product of the actions done by the government.”
 
He said that due to this problem, they have taken the actions to obtain significant results regarding this matter, detailing that Veracruz has received in two occasions the visit of the national anti-kidnapping coordinator, Renato Sales Heredia, who has acknowledge the good results in Veracruz.
 
Indicó que se ha detenido 126 personas vinculadas al secuestro y el desmembramiento de cuatro bandas dedicadas a esta actividad ilícita, demostrando resultado en el Estado.
 
Bravo Contreras indicated that 126 people linked to kidnapping have been arrested, as well as the dismembering of four groups of kidnappers. He also said that in Xalapa, the construction of the Specialized Unit to fight kidnapping in the country has already started.
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