2023-08-14 22:37:46
The Federal Investigation Police (FBI) delegation that Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso asked the United States to send to support investigations into the assassination of former candidate Fernando Villavicencio has already arrived in the neighboring country.
The Minister of the Interior, Juan Zapata, confirmed on Sunday that the men from the federal agency are already in the country and will be part of a meeting with the Police and the Prosecutor’s Office to determine how their participation in the investigation will be.
“The FBI commission is already in the country, it has made contact with the national police, in the next few hours there will be a tripartite meeting with the attorney general’s office, which is the head of the investigation to determine the scope of collaboration and support. ”, indicated Minister Zapata.
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One day after the crime in Villavicencio, which occurred last Wednesday, August 9, in the middle of a rally of his campaign, President Guillermo Lasso announced via Twitter that he had requested support from the FBI for the investigation into the crime of the candidate. , who was running second in the polls.
In the same announcement, the president confirmed that the agency had “accepted” the request.
But in addition to the help that arrives for the investigation from the US, the director of Investigation of the Ecuadorian police, Alain Luna, requested support from Interpol Colombia to provide the records of the detainees, since six of those arrested are citizens Colombians, as well as the alleged perpetrator of the crime, who died the same day as the assassination.
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The Colombians arrested for the crime in Villavicencio are: Andrés Manuel Mosquer Ortiz, José Neider López Hitas, Adey Fernando García García, Jules Osmín Castaño Alzate and Jhon Gregore Rodríguez.
After the crime, Lasso declared a state of emergency for 60 days throughout the country. The former candidate was veiled and buried last Friday and this Sunday, in the last televised presidential debate ahead of Sunday’s elections, a minute of silence was held in his memory and his place in the broadcast remained empty.
Over the weekend, the Construye de Villavicencio movement named Christian Zurita as his replacement, instead of Andrea González, who had been previously elected, but who will continue to be the vice-presidential formula.
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