POURRAIT SAUVE L'OTAGO SUISSE
RAPT IN MEXICO
Max Morales, a lawyer, specializes in cases of hostages. More than drug traffickers, corrupt police he feared. Portrait of a former bodyguard of the pope, who could play a key role in the affair of Jura kidnapped in December. Wednesday, March 2, 2011
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By Arnaud Bedat - Online on 18/01/2011
A month, a month already had a heavy silence. Since the day after his abduction last December 19 in Cuernavaca, no more new Olivier Tschumi, the Swiss hostages captured by a gang of drug dealers in the State of Morelos. After paying a ransom of 10,000 dollars - about 300 000 charged - still no trace, no serious leads. And nothing really seems to get better.
Is he still alive? Nothing indicates otherwise. Every hour, every minute is important - like the 3000 that currently sequestered Mexico, Country grangrené by fever kidnappings. But, like the Swiss Embassy in Mexico City, which has always "no concrete results so far," the family of Oliver Tschumi also seems helpless. A family vexed by a strategy that yielded no results, and now undermined by dissension and strife - between one part of the branch remained in Switzerland and those living in Mexico, totally under the influence of a French expatriate established Mexico, the role for less obscure. The latter promised again ten days ago arrests "imminent" by the Mexican police - who are here totally corrupt and often in cahoots with the kidnappers, only too happy to increase their miserable wages of thousands of pesos angel. More seriously, a month after the abduction, person in the entourage of Olivier or the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in Bern has yet used the services of a negotiator. Yet everyone here agrees that without the talents of such a man experienced in this type of exercise, it is almost impossible to attend a happy ending kidnappings by drug traffickers, real gangsters.
"CUTTER EARRINGS"
Max Morales is he the man for the job? It is certainly one of the best, if not the best in its genre. Sitting in a restaurant in Mexico City, the lawyer 54 years more preferred darkness to light, but he agreed to talk to us. From the outset, he does not hide that, if one were called upon to try to save Oliver Tschumi, he would plunge headlong into trying to get out of the clutches of hell. "This type of problem has solutions, he glides. There is no reason for it to end badly if we put up a good strategy to save him. "Negotiator displays a record that speaks volumes about his persuasive: more than 5000 cases solved in twenty years. And hundreds of arrests of criminals, including one in 1998, Daniel Arizmendi, known as the "ear cutter" the "serial Secuestradores" the bloodiest in the history of Mexico. "He has mounted 25 abductions and got $ 40 million in five years it has raised" vocations. " In the history of modern criminology, there is a before and after Arizmendi, Morales analysis. It was from him that we can speak of organized crime in Mexico and we see appearing recurrently active participation of police in 90% of kidnappings. ""CUTTER EARRINGS"
Former bodyguard of John Paul II during of his three trips to Mexico, Max Morales claims a quasi-messianic task. The secret to his success? "To tell you the truth, he smiles mysteriously, I've got a head on which I rely constantly. It is God. He helps me solve all these cases that remain a lot of stress, involve risks and are often very dangerous. Actually, I put myself in his hands and, through him, until today, in all cases I had to solve all the hostages have returned alive. " WORSE THAN THE POLICE drug traffickers
In the case of Olivier Tschumi, Max Morales calls for a media strategy pushing Switzerland to lobby at the highest diplomatic level, on President Felipe Calderon himself, who could at once refer the matter to the Mexican secret service and help find a rapid solution. "It would also put pressure on the kidnappers themselves, he says. In the case of Olivier Tschumi, take advantage of the fact that he is abroad and play on all the guarantees and the rights it has as a foreigner in Mexico. "
For him, the greatest danger to face during a kidnapping in Mexico, they are not criminals, but police officers. "The police organized crime. It is often said that for each band of kidnappers, there is at least one policeman in these groups, "he déploret. The problem is political: "During the last presidential campaign, it required a frontal fight against the kidnapping of candidates, but never against drug traffickers, which made them even more untouchable. And has only generate new abductions that can now be classified into four groups: the kidnapping by surprise, at random in the street, removing economic set up by gangs, made by narcoenlèvement narcopoliciers, and now the mass removal, where kidnap groups to become slaves in the north. "Max Morales regrets for example, that in very poor state of Morelos, where Oliver was kidnapped Tschumi," entire villages dedicated to kidnapping. " And federal anti-brigade Secuestros Cuernavaca, supposed to take care of abduction cases, has no national certification and no real desire to fight ...
In fact, Max Morales fears it not be removed one day to turn? "To be honest with you, not really loose there. But I already know what could be my end, because in my case there would be no negotiation possible ransom cons: it would be to permanently exterminating. I am prepared mentally for this for years, I have assimilated. But generally speaking offenders respect me much more than the police. "Yet, as he feels protected by his boss," way up there, "Morales does not intend to abandon his mission soon, and he intends continue for a long time to save innocent lives. In a totally volunteer, on behalf of God.
Source: The Illustrated
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