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31 Children From Cocula Kidnapped Two Months Before the 43 - Still Missing: France 24
Mexico City, November 26 (SINEMBARGO) .- On July 7 of this year, men with their faces covered, in broad daylight, kidnapped 31 adolescents and children of Cocula, Guerrero, in alleged official vehicles. To date their families know nothing of them, witnesses of the kidnapping reported to the television channel France 24.
In a report released today, the French news outlet reported the events that took place months before the Iguala Massacre, where elements of the Municipal Police abducted 43 students of the Normal School Rural Ayotzinapa, a fact that has caused marches and protests both in Mexico and in the international scene.
According to testimony, the kidnappers threatened the inhabitants of Cocula that they would kill them if they reported the incident to the authorities. Terrified, the families remained quiet until they decided to recount what happened to foreign television.
"Their collective silence is due in part to what may be another case of complicity between local authorities and drug cartels that operate with impunity in the region.
Although the kidnappers wore masks, the kidnapped the high school students in police vehicles and did not even bother to camouflage," says the report from France 24.
The mother of one of the missing children told the broadcaster: "On July 7th I was in the middle of the market when the murderers came and took the children. They took my daughter with others. They took them when she left school and we do not know where they were taken."
http://www.france24.com/en/20141126-video-new-kidnapping-case-cocula-mexico-france24-exclusive-missing-students/
http://www.sinembargo.mx/26-11-2014/1177982
http://cuadernosdobleraya.com/2014/11/26/cocula/
31 Children From Cocula Kidnapped Two Months Before the 43 - Still Missing: France 24
Mexico City, November 26 (SINEMBARGO) .- On July 7 of this year, men with their faces covered, in broad daylight, kidnapped 31 adolescents and children of Cocula, Guerrero, in alleged official vehicles. To date their families know nothing of them, witnesses of the kidnapping reported to the television channel France 24.
In a report released today, the French news outlet reported the events that took place months before the Iguala Massacre, where elements of the Municipal Police abducted 43 students of the Normal School Rural Ayotzinapa, a fact that has caused marches and protests both in Mexico and in the international scene.
According to testimony, the kidnappers threatened the inhabitants of Cocula that they would kill them if they reported the incident to the authorities. Terrified, the families remained quiet until they decided to recount what happened to foreign television.
"Their collective silence is due in part to what may be another case of complicity between local authorities and drug cartels that operate with impunity in the region.
Although the kidnappers wore masks, the kidnapped the high school students in police vehicles and did not even bother to camouflage," says the report from France 24.
The mother of one of the missing children told the broadcaster: "On July 7th I was in the middle of the market when the murderers came and took the children. They took my daughter with others. They took them when she left school and we do not know where they were taken."
http://www.france24.com/en/20141126-video-new-kidnapping-case-cocula-mexico-france24-exclusive-missing-students/
http://www.sinembargo.mx/26-11-2014/1177982
http://cuadernosdobleraya.com/2014/11/26/cocula/