“We are going to get paid with the compa. We are going to give him a flat [asesinar] and they are going to be sent a video so they can see that here in Mexico we don’t play games.” This was one of the six intimidating audio messages that the aunt of Cuban Alexander Aleaga Ramírez received, from whom they demanded $10,000 in exchange. of a video call to check your health status.
The young man, 24 years old, left his home in Güines, in the province of Mayabeque, on January 6, to a party in the company of a friend and since then they have not known the whereabouts of any of them, he told 14 intervene the missing person’s aunt.
Since there was no news of Aleaga, her aunt reported her disappearance on social media. She asked Irma Broek, administrator of the group on Facebook Denouncing crimes in Cuba. On Thursday morning, hours after the publication, they contacted the missing person’s family through a cell phone call.
A man told him that his nephew was “detained” in Veracruz (Mexico), and that he needed to know “who was going to be responsible for him.” She demanded that he take down Alexander’s photos from social media. “I need you to eliminate all that because if you don’t, you’re only going to harm it,” she warned.
“They tried to extort us,” emphasizes Alexander’s aunt. “It is impossible for him to be in Mexico,” she emphasizes, and the photo of the knife seems like a montage
The young man’s aunt asked for proof of life. “Alexander had no money nor did he plan to leave Cuba,” she tells 14 intervene. At the insistence of a video call to verify that it was him, they sent him two images of his nephew. In one of them he appears kneeling and with the message: “help me”; while a person holds a knife at the height of the young man’s neck.
“They tried to extort us,” emphasizes Alexander’s aunt. “It’s impossible for him to be in Mexico,” she emphasizes, and the photo of the knife seems like a montage.
Meanwhile, the family continues the search. There is no indication that the young man could have left by any means.
In Irma Broek’s publication, the case of Karildi Caridad Marín, a young woman from Havana who disappeared on December 14 of last year, was recalled. Yoandri Marín, brother of the 24-year-old girl, reported that a week after reporting her absence, she received a call from Mexico demanding a ransom.
Yoandri indicated that he has received other calls “trying to scam them,” so he suggested to Alexander’s aunt not to be fooled.
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