More kidnappings reported as they attack a police stationPublished 10 February 2015 (6 hours 10 minutes ago)
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An armed group murdered five people and kidnapped three others in the town of San Geronimo Palantla, district of Chilapa, reported Proceso on Monday.
On Sunday at 10 p.m., armed people traveling in six vans attacked the police station and killed four inside, hurt others, and kidnapped three more. Three hours beforehand, two indigenous people, accompanied by various residents, had filed a complaint about the kidnapping of their husbands by armed civilians coming from Rincon de Chautla; the commissioner told them then that their husbands will be shortly released, but a couple of hours later the same armed civilians attacked the place, shot at the people inside, and returned to Rincon de Chautla with three hostages.
The district of Chilapa is known for heroine and marijuana production, as well as violent confrontations between local criminal gangs, the Rojos and Ardillos, led by the family of the president of the state congress, Bernardo Ortega Jimenez of the center-left Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), according to Proceso.
Additionally, the armed group allegedly went back to San Geronimo in order to drop off the corpse of another victim; it also left one woman injured.
The army is in the town of Rincon de Chautla and is currently negotiating the release of the hostages.
Violence in the state of Guerrero seems to have returned to its regular state before the Ayotzinapa tragedy, despite the promises of security reforms by President Enrique Peña Nieto. This weekend, criminal groups kidnapped at least 11 people in Cocula, where the Ayotzinapa students were allegedly killed.
In a special report published two days before, Proceso revealed that the rate of forced disappearances had more than doubled during the Peña Nieto’s term. Since December 2012, 13 people are reported missing daily, compared to six under former President Felipe Calderon. This report, based on data from the National Public Security Secretariat, questions the security approach implemented so far, counting the total number of disappearances at almost 10,000 in two years.
The states of Tamaulipas (about 5,000 disappearances) and Jalisco (about 2,000) have similarly high violence rates. In Tamaulipas, in the city of Nuevo Laredo, the University Del Valle has closed its doors since Jan. 15 because of “narcoviolence,” reported Proceso on Monday.