The Latin term sequestrum came to our language as kidnapping . The concept refers to act and the result of kidnapping : deprive an individual of his freedom illegally to demand something in exchange for his release; take by force a means of transport; judicially disabling the distribution of a product; or seize a good by judicial means.
The most common use of the concept is associated with the illegitimate deprivation of liberty who suffers a person . Who commits the kidnapping (called kidnapper ) demands money or some benefit to free the victim (the kidnapped ).
Frequently, the kidnapper communicates by phone with the family of the kidnapped to request money in exchange for the release of the victim. It is an extortion: if the family does not pay what the kidnapper asks, he does not release the kidnapped or can even threaten to kill him.
The kidnapping can also have the purpose of exploitation of the kidnapped. There are criminal gangs that kidnap women to force them to practice prostitution, keeping the money generated by this activity. There are also groups that kidnap people to force them to work in clandestine textile workshops, to cite a possibility.
While there are several reasons why a person may be a victim of such kidnappings, it is common that the underlying reason is the lack of money. Before the need , human beings become more careless, we are less attentive to the warning signs, and it is then that criminals take advantage of our weakness to carry out the most ruthless acts.
There are many people who suddenly wake up in a foreign country, in which they cannot communicate since they do not know their language, and are forced to practice prostitution or some other forced labor, without the possibility of seeing their families again or To ask anyone for help. Kidnapping affects the victim on several levels; the kidnapper manages to instill terror based on threats and humiliations very well calculated, which are wearing it down and weakening her psychologically until she feels unable to leave the nightmare .
Mastering another living being is not a task that we can all or want to do, but something that almost all of us are vulnerable , if the other person has enough skill and patience to find our weak points . A kidnapping carries a series of consequences of varying severity in our state of health, both mental and physical, and that is why it is usually necessary to go to one or several medical and psychological professionals to try to overcome it.
But kidnapping, as a concept, also affects thousands of people who have never experienced it and probably never will. This occurs because of the impact that the news of victims of this type of crime has on them: for different reasons, they come to think that they will be next on the list, that there is someone watching them, waiting for the right moment to deprive them of their freedom .
He fear Kidnapping is a more common evil than many think, and it is important to treat it before it leads to a serious problem. The first general advice to overcome it is to discuss the issue with our relatives, without feeling ashamed. While it is not normal to become the target of a kidnapper, we must respect our fear and try to dissipate it little by little; For example, it is not bad to seek company to go to certain places that generate discomfort or lack of confidence.
An individual, on the other hand, can kidnap a airplane and force the pilot to go to a different destination than the established one. That is the case of a man which deals with a flight to Egypt but that, exhibiting a firearm, forces the pilot to land in Kenya.
The security forces, finally, can decide the kidnapping of illegal goods: contraband products, drugs , etc.
