13 Policemen Detained Over Kidnapping of Veracruz Newspaper Editor Sanchez Agence France-Presse
go to original January 8, 2015

An activist holds a picture of missing journalist Moises Sanchez during a demonstration in Mexico. (Reuters)

Thirteen police officers were detained in the Mexican state of Veracruz on Wednesday in connection with a journalist’s kidnapping, as authorities worked to identify a corpse found in a nearby town.

The municipal officers were among a group of 36 officers who were called on Monday to testify in the disappearance of Moises Sanchez, the editor of Medellin newspaper La Union, who was snatched from his home by armed men on January 2.

State prosecutor Luis Angel Bravo on Wednesday ordered 13 of them to be detained for 30 days. The rest were released.

Sanchez is known for his stories on the drug-related violence that has shaken Medellin, which neighbors Veracruz, one of Mexico’s largest ports.

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