Omar Plancarte, Green Party's Uruapan Mayoral Candidate Kidnapped

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Unknown subjects broke into Placarte Hernández's property and forced him to board a car (Photo: Facebook @ Omar Plancarte Hernandez)

Omar Plancarte Hernández, candidate for the Green Party for mayor of Uruapan, Michoacán, was kidnapped by a commando of armed subjects. After the party confirmed this fact, the state's Public Security Secretariat began an operational deployment to find the avocado businessman.

"We deployed a search in the municipality of Jiménez, after the report of the alleged kidnapping of the candidate for the municipal presidency of Uruapan, Omar Plancarte Hernández," the Michoacan police reported through networks.

According to preliminary reports, Plancarte Hernández was kidnapped on May 25, while he was on a ranch he owned, in Caurio de Guadalupe. A group of subjects arrived at that place who subdued Omar and forced him to board a vehicle, escaping to an unknown destination.

"We have given part to the authority so that the candidate can be located immediately, " the Green Ecologist Party of Mexico (PVEM) reported in a statement. "It is reprehensible that once again the electoral process is tainted by this type of event that only generates uncertainty for the citizens and our state," added the political force.

Public Security Secretariat began an operational deployment to find the avocado businessman.

According to initial reports, Plancarte Hernández was deprived of his liberty together with a companion identified as Luis Humberto Bueno Fierros. Both, supposedly, were loaded into a sedan-type car of the Volkswagen brand, model Jetta gray color. Some reports indicate that the events occurred in the morning.

As of 5:00 p.m. this Tuesday, the whereabouts of the candidate were unknown and reports of a monetary request for his release had not been disclosed either. The Green Ecologist Party of Mexico, through its president in Michoacán, reiterated the support and solidarity to the relatives and demanded that the authorities locate Omar Plancarte Hernández safely.

It should be noted that the life of Plancarte Hernández was marked by the kidnapping of his two sons Omar and Miguel Plancarte Ramírez, which occurred in Zapopan, Jalisco, on February 2, 2012. Since then, the university students have not been located. From then on, the avocado businessman dedicated himself to the search for his offspring and became involved in activism.

As he has shared with multiple journalists, those responsible for that disappearance was a command of the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel in complicity with the Zapopan police. Presumably, he was mistaken for being related to Enrique Plancarte Solís, leader of the Knights Templar.

Source: Infobae