VIDEO: In front of a child, subjects abducted a woman in Veracruz

A woman was removed in Veracruz Friday morning, when hooded men took her in a van when arriving at a store with her grandson.

The events took place in the municipality of Catemaco and they were recorded in the camera of a shoe store in Francisco Villa Street, where the woman was working as a cashier.

According to preliminary information, the event would have been recorded around 8:00 am on Friday, February 22 in the morning, when the video shows the arrival of the woman with the child and, later, that of the child. a white van.

The face of two people came down from the vehicle and we can see that one of them carries a gun in the right hand. They go quickly to the woman to hold her by the arm and in the truck.

It is observed that the removed, later identified as Susana S., tries to hang on a pole next to the car but can not do it with force. The boy who was accompanying him was watching what had happened as the car started and departed.

Neighbors in the area called the 911 emergency system to alert on what happened. After the police officer local, national and federal authorities have been tasked with searching for the victim without anyone knowing where he is.

The municipal president of CatemacoJulio César Ortega Serrano, said at a press conference that an operation had been launched to find the woman who was involved police elements from neighboring municipalities.

Wave removal in Veracruz

In recent months, many cases of kidnappings in the entity that was hit by a wave of insecurity.

The same Friday was reported another case of removal from a woman in the center of Xalapa while on February 14, we learned the beheading of the business woman Susana Carrerawas removed a few days before.

According to the organization Stop the kidnapping, Coatzacoalcos is the municipality with more kidnappings in Veracruz. Between 2012 and October 2018, 94 of the 1,307 complaints filed across the state for the offense of unlawful deprivation of liberty occurred.

The same organization reported Monday that there had been a rebound of 49% of kidnappings during the month of January compared to December.

The states with the largest number of reports are Veracruz, State of Mexico, Mexico City, Tamaulipas and Puebla.