Video released of SEIDO Agents Abducted by CJNG

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The two agents of the SEIDO who disappeared on February 5, were abducted the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación.  

They were forced to participate in a video.

In the video you can see the two men wearing a white shirt that reads "SEIDO" in black letters. Both are surrounded by armed and hooded men.

In the recording, the agents denounce  "abuses" in the anti-drug operations [against drug traffickers families]   the federal government and the pair read a message against the secretaries of the Interior, Alfonso Navarrete, of the Defense, Salvador Cienfuegos and of the Navy, Vidal Francisco Soberón Saenz.

It is to undermine the State and humiliate the institutions, said the activist Isabel Miranda de Wallace.

“I hope that there is no fool who believes everything the agents  were told to say." she said. "Because it's obvious that if they put a gun on you, you're going to say you raped your grandmother, why? Because you're threatened, it's undoubtedly organized crime exerting  great power."

Alfonso Hernández Villavicencio, 28, and Octavio Martínez Quiroz, 26, were abducted.by CJNG  in the limits of Nayarit and Jalisco. They worked in the kidnapping division of SEIDO a part of the attorney general’s PGR agency, the top investigative agency in Mexico.

During the weekend, a video on social networks was broadcast in which the investigative agents, launched the accusations  and criticisms.

The agent is reading the script; he speaks of "agents who torture, rob, kidnap, and no  respect towards women, children and the elderly, who are the principal victims”

And a warning; “This will happen to our associates from other agencies who commit these acts while hiding behind a badge.”

"This case personally touches me a lot and alarms me, firstly because the agents are people investigating kidnappings, they went to a baptism of a relative and obviously  someone detected that they were police," Wallace said.

"I understand, that they were wearing a cap that brought the code of SEIDO  and this is like telling the criminals 'look here I am.'

I urge the public not to believe in those videos."

About the agents

The attorney General's Office (PGR) reported that the young have barely a year working at SEIDO.  According to records of the Criminal Investigation Agency (AIC) they began on January 16, 2017.

There are no public records that public servants had worked before in that or another federal agency.

Both entered the PGR with the position of non-commissioned officer and were assigned to the "investigation of crimes" in the anti-kidnapping area of ​​the AIC.

Hernandez Villavicencio, 28 years old, studied criminology at the University of Ixtlahuaca CUI, in the State of Mexico.

Before entering the PGR, the agent worked as an escort in the Auxiliary Security Corps of the State of Mexico (CUSAEM) between February 2014 and June 2016.

In said corporation, Hernández Villavicencio was assigned to Region XXXI and held the position of "Officer A".

Martínez Quiroz, 26 years old, obtained his degree in Law from the Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala.

The only previous professional experience that the young man reported when entering the PGR was as "auxiliary" in a legal office between January 2011 and December 2013.

PGR did not give any personal information of the two men.  In the video, Hernández did send a greeting to “all of his family” and a separate greeting to his children.

The video did not reveal any noticeable signs of torture.

A baptism brought the agents to Nayarit

According to the investigations, the agents went to a personal commitment in Nayarit, apparently a christening.

However, before returning to Mexico City, they were picked up by members of the CJNG, the criminal organization that maintains control in that area.

The PGR informed on Sunday that the AIC has already initiated the necessary investigations and that it will not spare efforts or resources for the search and location of the agents.