Monterrey (Mexico), May 16 (EFE).- A group of 50 migrants who were traveling on a passenger bus from the central state of San Luis Potosí to Nuevo León, in the north of the country, were kidnapped by a group of hooded men and armed, the Nuevo León Attorney General’s Office reported on Tuesday.
He added that the events were recorded on Monday in the limits of San Luis Potosí with Nuevo León where the complaint was filed and added that the two drivers were also kidnapped.
“During the early hours of May 15, 2023, the owner of a (passenger) bus that was transporting a group of foreign migrants learned, through the GPS location of the vehicle, that in the state of San Luis Potosí, it had out of its route”, detailed the FGJNL.
He was also informed that the vehicle “remained immobile for 30 minutes and that the passengers had been deprived of their liberty by armed and hooded individuals.”
The Nuevo León Prosecutor’s Office pointed out that as a result of these events, the owner of the bus filed a complaint for the theft of the unit in San Luis Potosí and after that, both prosecutors work together.
He also assured “he did not have further details” of the migrants deprived of their liberty because he said that “the complaint was filed in San Luis Potosí and it is up to that social representation to expand the information.”
Later, the head of the Nuevo León Public Security Secretariat, Gerardo Palacios, pointed out that the National Guard confirmed that the events where people who were traveling on a bus and were deprived of their liberty occurred in the territory of the state of San Luis Potosí .
“On this side (Nuevo León), the state police Fuerza Civil have managed to locate in the open air and help several foreigners, who in their first interviews confirm this information (the scene of the events) and who would have managed to get to safety by escaping from their captors and leaving San Luis entering the territory of Nuevo León.
In addition, he said that the National Guard bases its claim on satellite tracking “that yields incontrovertible data.”
At night, nine people, originally from Venezuela and Honduras, who were among those kidnapped and who managed to escape from their captors were located after walking lost along a highway in San Luis Potosí.
PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE OF SAN LUIS POTOSI DA VERSIÓN
For its part, the San Luis Potosí Attorney General’s Office (FGJSLP) issued a statement in which it reported the discovery of a passenger unit in the municipality of Galeana, Nuevo León.
“During the course of this day, Tuesday May 16, authorities from Nuevo León informed their colleagues from San Luis Potosí that such a unit had been found, apparently transporting migrants,” the note said.
In addition, the FGJSLP pointed out that “the event occurred in Nuevo León” and that the various Security Forces of San Luis Potosí were on the lookout.
At the beginning of April, 35 migrants were kidnapped in the city of Matehuala, San Luis Potosí.
Traveling massively on passenger buses is one of the ways migrants use to cross Mexico to the United States, for which they pay thousands of dollars to human traffickers.
These events occur when thousands of migrants try to reach the northern border of Mexico after last Thursday night, the United States stopped applying Title 42, which allowed undocumented migrants to be immediately expelled under the pretext of covid-19. , but it established other restrictions on asylum applications at the border and began deporting through another regulation known as Title 8.
Unlike Title 42, Title 8 does allow migrants to request asylum upon arrival at the border, but they have to meet several requirements, including having applied in the countries through which they have passed or else they could be deported quickly.
