The authorities of the State of Mexico have detected 29 profiles and hundreds of calls for looting on social networks taking advantage of the coronavirus pandemic, the EFE agency reported.
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The Secretary of State Security of Mexico, Maribel Cervantes, explained this Friday in an interview with the agency that just a week ago they began to detect calls on social networks, especially on Facebook, to carry out looting in various establishments in the region.
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“So far, we have identified more than 29 profiles on Facebook, two on Twitter and some WhatsApp groups,” said Cervantes, who specified that several administrators of these groups have already been identified.
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The cyber investigation led them to identify between 10 and 20 calls per day to commit looting.
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Of these, five or six were completed, said the official.
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These looting takes place during this phase of social distancing in the country, with many empty streets and few open establishments, to confront the coronavirus crisis.
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“They were only robberies. There is no ideological, political or need to go to loot because there is a lack of food,” said Cervantes.
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He explained that, taking advantage of the situation, they are stealing mobile phones or electronic devices.
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With some 18 million inhabitants, the State of Mexico – the most populous in the country – has some 16,000 state police officers, to which thousands of municipal police officers and some 4,000 officers of the new National Guard are added.
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The Mexican health authorities in their last report raised to eight the number of deaths with the virus and 585 patients, 110 of these new cases.
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