Abducted Mexican Jewish Teen Freed After 40 Days
Mexico City Image by Getty Images
An Orthodox Jewish teenager kidnapped on November 12 in Mexico City was released after the family paid “a large ransom.”
The 19-year-old youth named Shlomo was captured inside the apartment building where he lives after the criminals had no difficulty getting past the security guard.
The parents were quickly contacted, but the negotiations lasted for 40 days. Shlomo was freed on Dec. 30, but the good news was not publicized until Monday. According to the Mexican Jewish press, the family paid “a large ransom” for Shlomo’s release.
In late December, a Jewish father and son were kidnapped and then freed in Venezuela after the Jewish community paid a $400,000 ransom.
A message from our CEO & publisher Rachel Fishman Feddersen
I hope you appreciated this article. Before you go, I’d like to ask you to please support the Forward’s award-winning, nonprofit journalism during this critical time.
At a time when other newsrooms are closing or cutting back, the Forward has removed its paywall and invested additional resources to report on the ground from Israel and around the U.S. on the impact of the war, rising antisemitism and polarized discourse..
Readers like you make it all possible. Support our work by becoming a Forward Member and connect with our journalism and your community.
— Rachel Fishman Feddersen, Publisher and CEO
