Prosecutors in Veracruz State to Interrogate Mayor Over Journalist Abduction PressTV
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A Mexican journalist holds a poster during a protest rally against the abduction of journalist Moises Sanchez in Veracruz state. (AFP/Koral Carballo)

Prosecutors in Mexico are set to interrogate a mayor as part of a criminal probe into the recent abduction of a local journalist by unidentified gunmen a week ago.

The prosecutor’s office in the southeastern Mexican state of Veracruz said in a Friday statement that it had asked Mayor of Medellin de Bravo Omar Cruz Reyez “to present his testimony” regarding the case on Monday.

The development comes after Mexican authorities arrested 13 municipal officers of the city earlier this week in connection with the kidnapping of Moises Sanchez, the editor of Medellin de Bravo newspaper La Union, from his residence by the armed men on January 2.

The newspaper had published numerous stories about the persisting narcotics trafficking in Veracruz, a state plagued by drug cartel violence.

According to the state prosecutor’s office, Cruz has expressed willingness to assist the criminal investigation into the editor’s abduction.

Meanwhile, Sanchez’s family is nervously awaiting DNA results from a body discovered last Monday on a roadside 40 kilometers from Medellin de Bravo.

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