They killed a 14-year-old in Mexico and found him in a suitcase

Two teenagers are in custody. The victim was kidnapped last Tuesday night.

The Attorney General of Mexico City announced this Thursday 12-N that he is investigating the murder of a minor whose remains were found in a suitcase carried by two teenagers in the center of the Mexican capital, a crime that is added to that of two minors found dead last week.

In a message to the media, the spokesman for the prosecutor’s office of the capital, Ulises Lara, explained that the remains were found during the early hours of Wednesday 11-N in the central district of Guerrero and that the teenagers carrying the suitcase were arrested with the charge of “aggravated kidnapping”.

He also explained that agents from the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Capital Police “carried out search warrants in three buildings” in the area, where they found enough evidence to conclude that the child was murdered in one of those houses.

Moreover, he stressed the “possible participation of other people” in the crime, in addition to the two teenagers arrested.

According to the local press, the victim, who was named Alessandro and was 14, was kidnapped on Tuesday night by four armed people allegedly linked to the Unión Tepito cartel, demanding a ransom from the family that they could not pay.

This crime comes just a week after the remains of two 12- and 14-year-old Mazahua ethnic groups were found in garbage bags while a subject transported them in a wheelbarrow in the capital’s center.

“The investigation indicates that these events are not related to those that occurred on November 1,” said the spokesman for the public ministry.

Following recent events, the government of Mexico City announced on Thursday a series of social programs called Barrio Adentro, to prevent minors in the historic center from falling into drug trafficking networks.

The undersecretary to the government of the capital, Félix Arturo Medina, announced that educational and cultural activities in the center will be increased and that more than 6,000 minors residing in the area will be followed house by house.

“They aim to prevent the boys and girls of Mexico City from falling into the hands of crime and thus be able to eradicate this evil,” the official said of the announced measures.

For years the governments of the capital had denied the presence of the country’s cartels in Mexico City and attributed the crime to smaller criminal gangs.

The government of Mexico has now taken over the operation of at least 14 criminal gangs in Mexico City, including rivals Unión Tepito and Antiunión Tepito, which have a special presence in the center.