'If they kill me, make me a favor ...'
Nuevo Ideal Durango is a town that looks like a branch of hell: the kidnapping is everyone day and make the neighbors or acquaintances of the victims. From there came to Don Polo process earlier this month to count the torture that had lived for the kidnapping of his son.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
PATRICIA DAVILA
MEXICO CITY .- "We come for you company!" Shouted the men dressed while soldiers with goat horns pointed at him Leopoldo Escobar Valenzuela, Don Polo. He wanted to defend, drew his pistol, but the shots of the AK-47 shot him. He died minutes after arriving at hospital.
morning wasFriday 4. He had just opened its auto parts in Nuevo Ideal, Durango. Four months earlier, had kidnapped his son Leopold, Leo. And although not paid the ransom he was released. Sought help from the governor and the attorney of Durango and the Army. Everyone ignored him.
searched on their own and gave to the kidnappers. Discovered that are protected by state officials and the Army. Complained to the Attorney General's Office (PGR) in the Navy Department and the Office of the President. Nobody helped. Apparently his performance was revenge for exposing the plagiarism.
Four days before his assassination Don Polo came to the writing process to discuss his case. With tired face, reflected more the weight of the 130 days without knowing of his son, who's 80 years of life.
sat down and arranged her papers on a table. His hands trembled. Accepted tea. He calmed down and began the story:
"It was 7 pm on September 23 (2010). My son Leo was in a junked (junkyard) owned by serving customers and suddenly realize that against the business for a Tahoe truck, sand color. fell 4 hooded men dressed in military-style uniform. They came for him. They beat the arms and put him in the car, went toward the town of Santiago Papasquiaro.
200 meters from the business of Leo there is a catch with about 20 soldiers. Don Leopoldo ran toward them: "I asked them to tell me why had taken my son, I investigated and after 15 minutes I say, 'Sorry. We can not do anything. " 'Why not?' Claim, but they told me I had to go to file a complaint with the police anti-kidnapping.
"That's what my daughter Hilda arrives and asks the soldiers to please join us to go rescue his brother. Cynic, one of the soldiers said: 'Gather the money they pay and to release him'. "
Don Polo returned to his business, where Leo's wife was talking on the phone with the kidnappers. They were told that they did not part the police, who collect 10 million pesos because otherwise they would kill him: "I took the phone and told the abductor was a lot of money, not what we had. I replied that then they would hang me to pieces in the door. "
The kidnappers called almost daily to see how much money the family had met:" At 10:45 am on September 26 received a message of Cell text to my daughter. It was my son, 'I'm fine. Are waiting for the boss, do not check the number. I do not like. The master, Polo. " At 11:17 comes another: 'Do not say anything because there Eloy fart with him, I understand. " The number that came the message is 6181212794.
COMPLAINTS UNFRUITFUL
Again, his hands trembled. Don Polo continued: "The next day (September 27) called plagiarists and ask how much money together, I said that 466 thousand pesos. I suggest that they are delivered. Later returns to communicate, say it very little, which couples 3 million. Day 30 was asked to complete at least 500 thousand pesos. Are also provided.
At 6:14 pm the same day received another text message:
"I have in Las Palmas, going right, amero is up the road in a warehouse with a tin roof. There are many hawks, tell the soldiers (...) GIVE YOUR with wool, anyway that is what God wants. Come early, at about 5 (am); have visas in hand. No fence to come you in case something goes wrong, I hope you understand me, tell Dad. "Minutes later the kidnappers themselves could use the phone to ask Don Polo to give him 10 thousand dollars to the owner of the phone, but did not say who he was.
Don Polo continued his story:
"Immediately I contact Ernesto Velasquez, mayor of Nuevo Ideal, I read the message and tell me that I reach in to put the complaint Durango the prosecutor (attorney) in the state. My daughter Hilda was accompanied by Juan Orozco, municipal trustee.
"It was around 12 at night, three are received by the prosecutor Ramiro Ortiz Aguirre, my daughter tells what happened from plagiarism and asks him to go help rescue his brother. The prosecutor says he will not risk their police without doing an investigation. The mayor and try to convince the trustee but Ramiro Ortiz's run: 'What do not understand! ", He shouted as he left."
Since the abduction, Don Polo first thing that came to mind was the safety of his wife, his four daughters, the wife of Leo and his little granddaughter of two years: "Instead of 9, close to 7 business. We were scared because we saw that we were watching. Day and night passed by the auto parts and trucks around the house. They stood in front and made noise. The felt on us. "
On October 2, a sister of Don Polo went to the Military Zone X to a complaint, but warned that he must be the father of the victim to pick it up and gave 01800 numbers to make telephone. He spoke immediately.
next day also spoke to 71 Infantry Battalion in Santiago Papasquiaro, where he attended a lieutenant colonel named Zambrano, who said: "If you really know the exactly where they have kidnapped your child, come to the barracks and if you join us, just with those thugs. "Don Polo reached headquarters in just over an hour.
"In the barracks, took my details and told me we were going in the morning by Leo, but to show the text message was shocked: 'What do you of this number they sent you?" He said and immediately changed of opinion and that they would go to rescue him at 4 am on day 5. I was on the lookout. Out came the sun and never arrived, "he said.
Then Don Polo and his daughters were assembled value:
"Dressed as a man my daughter burst into walls of the house to circumvent controls. So we will assemble the kidnappers warned we watched. Over the days we discovered that some were of the people, others do not: a street identified Flavio Quiñones, that after a while to monitor in a corner he met with Arnold Nevarez. Flavio Rafael Fernández replaced it and was met Gustavo Gutierrez and Jaime Garcia and his wife ... "
All these people were not only neighbors and acquaintances of Don Polo Nuevo Ideal, but members of the band of kidnappers.
On October 4, the kidnappers called for more money, the family handed over 1.6 million pesos. One of the offenders spoke to the daughter cell Don Polo to warn that he had received the money. She asked what time and where they would free up Leo. The man replied that after counting the money would communicate again. Meanwhile, let's talk a moment with her husband.
COVER
news Without Leo, "the 9th of October I went to the Prosecutor's Office must, I went to the prosecutor Ezequiel González Arreola.
"I gave all the information you had on the kidnapping of Leo, including the names of our sentries. When I went to sign my statement I missed that blame the prosecutor of what happens to my son, my family and me. 'Why do you want to put you? "He asked. 'Cause you know how to act', I replied. "How?" said. 'Then kill the person to end the problem, "he replied."
October 11 Don Polo went to the Office of Special Investigations on Organized Crime (SIEDO) of the PGR, where he made a complaint, which was established in the record APG-APRGR/SIEDO/UEIS/472/2010. That the expanded complaint in October, November and December 2010 and last January.
in November still no news of her son. Investigated on their own and hired people to help him to inquire: "So I learned that Jaime Garcia is one who hires and pays the hawks. Say to the alleged leaders: Felipe Martinez and Eloy Mares Basilio Carrasco or Barraza" said.
offered 100 thousand dollars of reward for providing accurate information on the whereabouts of Leo. There came a person who reported: "Two hours before the kidnapping of my son, Eloy, and Basil Philip met with the kidnappers of the Tahoe on the outskirts of town, opposite a place called El Arco de la Concha. After half an hour saw them leave. On 26 December, this person went to SIEDO to make a statement. "
Another person told the SIEDO:" I was detained for five months until I escaped. At the hostages we have in La Cueva de El Pino, a place in the mountains known as the Ulama, the municipality of Nuevo Ideal.
"In the morning we arrive very early for breakfast, then we have the mountain to work in the despate (cut) of marijuana. Do not let us talk among ourselves and unless we meet. With me were 18 men young men, four women and one old, he died on them in the cave. "
In an oversight, one of the kidnappers dropped the voter and the witness of Don Polo saved it. SIEDO When he went to put his complaint, that person gave the credential and provided one more fact: a brother of the delinquent owner of the card also worked at the camp.
With trembling hands Don Polo pulled out a map, spread it on the table and geographically located in places that had been tracking his son, La Palma, 16 km from the village, The Ulama to 110 and one in Conet Comonfort. In this place could not go. They killed him before.
"This whole area is protected by the military but are just assholes, never grab anyone. You can see that protect criminals," he said as he folded the map again.
PINOS OR GOVERNOR OR
December 12 Don Polo met with the prosecutor Ezekiel Arreola:
"I cited at the restaurant El Porton for 'talk about my case. "Then I said to also visit the anti-kidnapping chief Enrique Diaz. When he arrived, Diaz told me:' Hey Don Leopoldo, you you know who are the evildoers, look, I have people who can fix, it's all that talk with them to agree on the price. " 'Ah, yes, what good treatment is proposing to me! And what ... "I will charge by the Dozen?" I asked. 'Ah, you bastard!, For how many? "He said.
"Then I found out that the (police) were raising anti-kidnapping people I mentioned in my report: the first was grabbed Jaime, then went by Manuel Gonzalez and then by Rafael Fernández. I said I had defendant, even taught the record. Let them go away. "
- How did you hear?
Manuel " Because I talked to my daughter. He said, "Hey, as Don Polo is where we are lacking a head" . She asked who had told him and he replied that the Attorney General.
"Do you understand what these bastards want? They want to give me the mother, "said Don Polo Process.
- What killed him?
" Yes, kill me. And dead, it's all over.
He warned residents of other municipalities who were also victims of kidnapping: "Do not investigate or make scandal because it will go as far as Manuel Pineda, who denounced and killed him. So many stay silent. Only in New Ideal as last year there 50 kidnappings. In the same situation are other municipalities. "
The night before his assassination Don Polo spoke to his wife. He said he felt very tired, I could not stand it: "This is not life. If they kill me would make me a favor ..."
This note was taken from the following website: http://
www.eldiariodecoahuila.com.mx/notas/2011/2/13/lomejordelaapro-218148.asp
Authorities in Mexico are the kidnappers or protect them.
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