The state attorney general‘s office indicated in a statement that the anti-corruption and organized crime judge hearing the case had accepted the prosecutor’s request. Issued order for trial and confirmed preventive detention order for accused Manuel G, Juan PA, Joshua SR, Jordan TP, Miguel BP, Juan MC, Jonathan MP, Charles SV, George AS, Jose OT and Adan QS.
For another defendant, Willian Joffre AB, who was nicknamed ‘Negro Willie’ and identified by authorities as the leader of the Los Tiguerones criminal gang, the judge ordered an “International Arrest and Red Dispersion Order (Interpol) ” Decided, because he was supposed to. As a leader of a criminal organization and linked to the process on February 21, the prosecutor’s office said.
The case against this last accused will be suspended “Until he is located and taken into custody,” The judge also ordered a freeze on the sale of properties and retention of values of up to $46,000 for each defendant, the source added.
The prosecutor’s office charged the suspects with terrorism after their alleged participation in the occupation of the TC television channel facilities in Guayaquil, amid days of violence unleashed by organized crime groups.
Mohd. in the attack on the canal. The group that carried out the infiltration threatened and attacked several members of the technical staff and journalists broadcasting the event live.
At the trial preparatory hearing held this Monday, the prosecutor in the case presented “information and arrest reports prepared by the National Police” as evidence; Audio, video and similar reports relating to the events, the complaint submitted by the directors of the television channel and a reproduction of the anticipated testimony of one of the attacked journalists.
Besides, Ballistics, electronic microscopy and technical eye inspection reports, as well as other signs and evidence collected by the judicial police such as a rifle, two pistols, ammunition, explosives, mobile phones, bulletproof vests and communication radios.
The State Prosecutor’s Office began investigating the emergence of a group of attackers armed with pistols, a military-type grenade and sticks of dynamite.
The attackers threatened and intimidated “To the security personnel and then to the activists present there, finally reaching the television set and threatening the journalists,” The Prosecutor’s Office was added.
2 people were injured in the violent action and several employees of the television station were treated by fire department paramedics who arrived at the scene.
The 11 people arrested at the site of the attack were transferred to the relevant authorities, while 2 teenagers, aged 15 and 17, were also detained in the police operation, under the command of the Juvenile Crime Brigade of the Prosecutor’s Office. Kept.
On March 28, both minors were sentenced to 8 years of preventive detention for the crime of terrorism.
The State Prosecutor’s Office reminded that in Ecuador this crime is punishable by 10 to 13 years’ imprisonment.