The three Italians who went missing in late January in western Mexico and are missing were sold for a total of "43 euros" by Mexican police to members of an organized crime gang, Francesco Rousseau, son of one of the three Neapolitans, complained on Sunday.
"The Mexican police sold my family members for 43 euros, it is a shame, it is unheard of," Rousseau told an Italian radio station in anger. "These are the criminals, not my brother, my father and my cousin," he added.
Three police officers and a policewoman have been arrested and are said to have confessed to the January 31 disappearance of three Italians in the state of Jalisco in western Mexico, the state prosecutor's office announced on Saturday. The four Mexican law enforcement officers "confessed to handing over (the three Italians) to members of a (gang) of organized crime in Tekatitlan, a city of 16.500 about 600 kilometers west of the capital," the state prosecutor explained. Sanchez.
The three police officers and one police officer, all of whom served in Tekatitlan, are facing charges for the "disappearance" of the three Italians, the prosecutor added.
According to Francesco Rousseau, the three Italians went to Mexico to sell generators and had nothing to do with organized crime. He denied the allegations that his 60-year-old father used forged documents during his trip to Mexico.
His brother is 25 years old, his cousin is 29. “Italy must mobilize, they must tell us where it is. We hope they are still alive ", stressed from his side Gino Bergame, a representative of the family.
The latest news for the three Italians was that they were brought by police to a gas station.