Bodies of The Tepito 12 Found

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The bodies of the young missing last May 26 at the bar Heaven, in the Zona Rosa of Mexico City, were found by authorities in Chalco, State of Mexico, confirmed this morning several sources.

The autopsies on the corpses were performed and corresponding DNA testing and were positive. They are the same that were kidnapped  almost three months.

Apart from the 12 missing young people, most of whom lived in the neighborhood of Tepito, was found the body of a young man who was known as "The Omarcito". Were 13 bodies found in Mexico State territory.

Young people have disappeared as a result of the dispute over the sale of drugs in the Zona Rosa, Condesa corridor.

Initially, the group known as "The Union" targeted  “El Toñín” and “El Barrigas”,, but the rest of the Tepiteños had the misfortune of being in the wrong place at the wrong time..

Both “El Toñín” and “El Barrigas”, were posing as members of the Union of Tepito.

The case of the missing is considered the first great crisis in the government of Miguel Angel Mancera. The Head of Government of the Federal District first questioned youth had been "raised" in the antrum, then described the kidnapping as "no" and even hinted that there were no weapons in the criminal operation.

 

 

More from the associated press

Prosecutors have said the abductions from the bar were linked to a dispute between two rival drug gangs, one in Mexico City’s dangerous Tepito neighborhood, home to most of the abducted. The families of the disappeared, however, say the missing young people were not involved in drug trafficking.

Surveillance cameras showed several cars pulling up to the bar and taking the victims away. A witness who escaped told authorities that a bar manager had ordered the music turned off, told patrons that authorities were about to raid the establishment and ordered those inside to leave.

The 12 have not been heard from since.

 

So far, six people have been detained in the Heaven case, including club owner Ernesto Espinosa Lobo, known as “The Wolf,” who has been charged with kidnapping. Among the arrested are another bar owner, a driver and security guard.

One suspect is still a fugitive.

The bizarre disappearance resonated across the city of 9 million people because many had come to believe it was an oasis from Mexico’s cartels and drug violence.

The mass abduction of 12 mirrored crimes in drug-trafficking hot spots such as the western state of Michoacán, where 21 tourists disappeared, only to be found in a mass grave, or in Monterrey, where 17 kidnapped musicians were found dead at the bottom of a well.

Mexico City officials have insisted since the Heaven kidnapping that large drug cartels do not operate in the city. But the case has been a political liability, with local polls saying the public is overwhelmingly opposed to how Mayor Miguel Mancera has handled the case.

In another element of the case that is reminiscent of cartel warfare, one of the owners of the Heaven bar, Dax Rodriguez Ledezma, fled authorities only to turn up dead, his body dumped and burned in a rural area with that of his girlfriend and another friend.

Ricardo Martinez, a lawyer for relatives of the missing, told The Associated Press earlier that state and federal officials had informed him that 13 bodies had been found on a ranch east of Mexico City. He said officials suspected they belonged to those who disappeared from the bar.

Martinez said there are 13 bodies because the family of one of the disappeared never reported the person missing.