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Security cameras capture two men abandoning a corpse that they carried in a trash can in Mexico City

After leaving the body, the subjects boarded a taxi that took them to a nearby home.
After leaving the body, the subjects boarded a taxi that took them to a nearby home.

Photo: Secretary of Citizen Security / Courtesy

The opinion

By: The opinion Posted 01 Sep 2023, 15:34 pm EDT

The violence that has been plaguing a large part of the Mexican territory for years and that has been kept far from the country’s capital has gradually entered Mexico City, where violent acts have been recorded that, unlike other states, in most of the culprits are located thanks to the video surveillance system. A case like this was captured by security cameras, when two men left a corpse inside a boat.

It was right in the Garibaldi area, one of the most touristy in the Center of Mexico City, where a homeless man found the body of a man in a tamboThe first thing that occurred to him was to steal his tennis shoes, since he was upside down and with garbage covering him, but the security cameras captured the action and the police intervened believing it was an assault, but upon arrival they discovered that it was another situation , as reported by El Heraldo de México.

Seeing that they were facing a possible murder case – well, the victim showed signs of torture, in addition to having a bag over his head and being handcuffed– A search began through the video surveillance system, identifying two subjects who fired shots at the man, and located them in a building near where the body was abandoned.

▶️ Two men were caught at the moment they transported a boat with the body of a person who moments before was shot to death and whose body was abandoned in the streets of the Historic Center pic.twitter.com/7opAXZbRfc

– Milenio Television (@mileniotv) September 1, 2023

In the recordings of the security cameras, they are seen carrying a drum in which they deposited the man who was murdered minutes before, for later leave it in a place where there was a lot of garbage thrown away. After leaving the boat, they boarded a taxi that took them to a nearby home.

Two accused are arrested

According to the Secretariat of Citizen Security of Mexico City, policemen arrived at the place where they located those responsible and observed that two people, noticing the police presence, began to run and entered a housing unit, for which they began a chase.

result of the above, A 41-year-old man and a young man who said he was 16 years old were arrestedto whom they secured a firearm stocked with 17 useful cartridges.

So far the victim has not been identified, but it is believed that he is under 20 years old, identity studies will be carried out, while his photograph will be shared so that his relatives can identify him.

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