After I published the last post where El Universal mentioned the video sent to the family of the
Faddoul brothers, some of the readers were asking me about the three girls that
were kidnapped in the Tuy Valley,
the same area where the Faddouls were staying in captivity.
I did a little search and I found that the case had some similaritied to that of the Faddouls. The
story can be found here.
There were three sisters, ages 16, 14 and 13 that were
kidnapped closed to their homes in Ocumare del Tuy. They went out with their
cousin to buy Chinese rice and stopped in a convenience store where the
kidnappers took possession of the car. After a while, the kidnappers let the
cousin out of the car and took the three girls.
The girls were advised not to try to escape because the
whole region was full of “captors”.
The kidnappers explained to the girls that the kidnapping
had been planned in Colombia
with a roulette. They had chosen at random Venezuela,
then Ocumare del Tuy and finally they had searched the richest people in the
area. They knew exactly the dayly routine of the Blanco-Bandes family.
One day the girls were told that his dad had payed up the
ransom money and that they were going to be liberated. They were left alone.
The oldest stayed and told the other two to get into the bush so that if the
captors came back, they would only take one of them. But this time their dad
and the police were the ones who came and the story for them had a very happy
ending.
According to this link,
two of the kidnappers were detained when they were to Petare, in Caracas,
to take the ransom money. They were the ones that told the police the precise
location where the girls were kept. They belonged to the band of Alirio
Contreras, a Colombian with a kidnapping ring in all the Miranda state.
Now, about the dates. The report form La Voz says that the
girls were kidnapped on March the 3rd and that they were liberated
on the march 10.
Interestingly, a few
days later, La
Voz explains that days after the
release of the three girls, the Police was searching the whole area to catch
the head of the kidnapers band, Alirio José Contreras.
Alirio Contreras was finally arrested in Petare on March the
15, according to El Universal.
After reading this story, I found the relationship with the
Faddoul case even more puzzling. When the Police was looking for Contreras,
didn’t they ask for hints about the Faddoul?
Don’t forget that the Faddoul were in
the area all the days the girls were in captivity and afterwords when the
Police supposedly searched for Contreras.
Don’t forget either that the Faddoul video was produced on
March 9 and handed to the family on March 12.
So here are the new corrected event dates (according to what
I could extract from the newspaper articles):
Feb 23, the Faddouls are kidnapped
March 3, the Blanco girls are kidnapped
March 9, the Faddoul video is produced
March 10, the Blanco girls are released
March 12, the Faddoul family received the video
March 10-15 the Tuy area is searched for Alirio Contreras
March 15 Alirio Contreras is arrested in Petare
April 4 The Faddouls are found dead
April 7 The case is almost solved.
Bad luck? Incompentence? Or convenient overlook by someone around
the whereabouts of the Faddoul brothers?
Reporting from Cyberspace
Jorge Arena
Devoted Ghost Blogger.
http://arenaspace.blogspot.com
http://chavezfortheun.blogspot.com
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