Fernando Martí

Fernando Martí

Fernando Martí (c. 1994 – 2008) was the 14-year-old son of a wealthy sporting goods chain owner whose kidnapping and murder caused a national outrage in Mexico, [cite news | last= Kennedy | first= Duncan | title= Mexican fury grows at kidnappings | url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7553633.stm | work= BBC News | date= 2008-08-11 | accessdate= 2008-08-27 ] with some hoping that involvement of such a wealthy family might help draw attention to the issue. [cite news | last= Bussey | first= Jane | title= Mexico mourns another kidnapping death | url= http://www.mcclatchydc.com/100/story/47821.html | work= McClatchy Newspapers | date= 2008-08-12 | accessdate= 2008-08-27 ]

Kidnap and murder

Martí was being driven with a bodyguard to the British American School when he was stopped at a roadblock by officers wearing uniforms of Mexico's Federal Investigations Agency, the equivalent of the United States' Federal Bureau of Investigation. [cite news | last= Iliff | first= Laurence | title= Calderón proposes life sentence for police involved in kidnappings in Mexico | url= http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/world/mexico/stories/DN-kidnap_08int.ART.State.Edition2.4dddd5f.html | work= Dallas Morning News | date= 2008-08-08 | accessdate= 2008-08-27 ] The driver was tortured by having his teeth pulled out and later killed, and the bodyguard was strangled. The bodyguard survived and later implicated law enforcement, including Jose Luis Romero, commander of the detective unit at Mexico City International Airport. [cite news | last= Althaus | first= Dudley | title= Kidnap-slaying spurs calls for police reforms / Two Mexico City officers accused in death of boy, 14 | url= http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2008_4607022 | work= Houston Chronicle | page= A10 | date= 2008-08-06 | accessdate= 2008-08-27 ]

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