translated from Spanish: Details about the kidnapping of the niece of Gabriel García Márquez

Martínez García Melisa is 34 years old and is the great-niece of the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez. She is granddaughter of Jaime García Márquez, one of the brothers of the Nobel Prize for literature 1982.La woman had been reported as missing on 23 August and on Wednesday the local police confirmed that you it’s a kidnapping for extortion purposes which would not have to do with it being pari entity of renowned author. The captors contacted the relatives of the victim and ask for $5 million for his release.

Photo: Twitter days prior to his disappearance Martinez studied graphic design, but devoted himself to business activities related to the cultivation of banana in the North of Colombia. The last time that they knew Martinez, women addressed is domiciled in Santa Marta from his place of work in the neighboring municipality of area Bananera.A late August, the niece of writer van was found abandoned close to the Sierra N evade in the Colombian Caribbean and was reported as disappeared. Days later the President of Colombia, Iván Duque, instructed the police search.
the authorities pledge more than $30,000 reward to who gives any information that might give the whereabouts of the kidnapped.

Photo: Twitter as the director of the anti-kidnapping police told the press, general Fernando Murillo figure is high to give a margin for negotiation with the family. “We continue with a panel investigating; This is a very difficult case,”he added.

Photo: Twitter

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