Three Neapolitan men who went
missing in Mexico on January 31 are alive according to
investigators, a lawyer said at an Italian foreign ministry
meeting with their relatives in Rome Friday.
"For the Mexican authorities our co-nationals are alive and
the investigative activity is moving in this direction," said
the lawyer, Claudio Falletti.
Caretaker Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano recently called
for "urgent" action to find the trio.
It has been reported by their family that the three
Neapolitan street vendors were sold by police to a gang in the
State of Jalisco for 43 euros.
The relatives of Raffaele Russo, his son Antonio, and nephew
Vincenzo Commino have repeatedly appealed to the government to
intervene.
The Italian foreign ministry, which has confirmed that four
Mexican police have been arrested, said Friday it had reiterated
to "our Mexican counterparts the importance which the government
attributes to the affair and the urgency of providing news and
certain elements to the families as soon as possible".
The three street vendors went missing in the high-crime city
of Tecaltitlan, in the State of Jalisco.
photo: torchlit parade in Naples for the three
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