After more than two weeks of intense search by land and air, the family that traveled to Mexico City on vacation and disappeared when returning to Guadalajara has been found alive.
This was announced on his Twitter account by the governor of Jalisco, Enrique Alfaro, this Friday morning.
The governor indicated that after a search "without rest" in different municipalities of that state and after a
strong deployment of security
, it was possible to find the
mother, father, aunt and son of the aunt
.
"Today they are safe and sound," stressed the politician.
Its members are: Jimena Romo Jiménez, 24, of Mexican and American nationality (Julia's mother);
her husband, Julio Villaseñor (father of the girl), 35;
Virginia Villaseñor (Julio's sister), 24;
and his 9-year-old son, Iker Fabricio Escoto Villaseñor.
Found at a gas station
Around 2:30 am this Friday, the four members of the family
were released at a gas station
in the community of La Alhaja, in the municipality of Zapotlanejo, in Jalisco, according to the Jalisco prosecutor, Octavio Solís.
There, they asked for the phone number of one of the workers to contact the rest of his family, Solís added.
They are all safe and a group of doctors is reviewing their health.
He assured that the Jalisco state prosecutor's office will give more details of the case.
More than 200 security elements
intervened in his search, said this Friday at a press conference at the National Palace, the Secretary for Citizen Protection Security, Rosa Icela.
Authorities continue to investigate the case to "punish those responsible," he added.
Hours before, Julia Villaseñor Romo, the 1 year and 6 month old daughter, was found alive.
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The Jalisco State Personnel Search Commission reported this Thursday that the little girl, the youngest among the disappeared, was found in good health and handed over to her grandfather Salvador Romo.
“It's very good, thank God.
They already reviewed it.
Here I have it in my hands, ”Romo told Noticias Telemundo.
"It is the principle of those who are missing."
A family disappears in Mexico.Noticias Telemundo
The five members of this family were reported missing on March 24 when they returned to Jalisco after a vacation in the Mexican capital.
The authorities focused their search on the municipality of Acatic, in the state of Jalisco, on whose highway they had been located for the last time.
A key clue
Days before the disappearance of the Villaseñor Romo family,
a man who has a working relationship with the disappeared was shot.
The subject, who has not been identified, is hospitalized and will be questioned by the authorities in the coming days.
"We believe that
this individual has important information for clarifying the facts
and locating the missing persons," said Solís this Tuesday.
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The man was shot in the back on March 19 when several subjects shot him while driving a car in a neighborhood in Zapopan, very close to Guadalajara.
Days later,
the state prosecutor's office arrested seven municipal agents
who are suspected of participating in the disappearance of the family and has an arrest warrant against the Acatic deputy director of the police.
"Data were obtained that make the participation of some policemen here from the Acatic police station very likely in the disappearance of these people," the prosecutor said at a press conference on Sunday.
More than 85,000 missing
A search operation with hundreds of military and police personnel like the one that was carried out with this family is
something quite unusual in Mexico.
There are more than 80,000 people in the country whose whereabouts remain unknown.
There is no trace of the vast majority since 2006, when the so-called war against drug trafficking began.
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From 2006 to April 7, 2021, Mexico adds more than 85,000 reports of missing or not located people, reported on Thursday the Undersecretary for Human Rights of the Ministry of the Interior (Segob), Alejandro Encinas.
The states with the highest number of reports of disappearance are Jalisco, Michoacán, Mexico City, Tamaulipas, Nuevo León, Guanajuato, Sonora, Sinaloa, Zacatecas and the State of Mexico;
together they account for 76% of the cases.
With information from Efe.
