2024-10-05 16:36:12
The Prosecutor’s Office applies an investigation protocol for femicides. The 18 soldiers were detained this Sunday, June 30, for 8 hours, within the first investigations into the death by asphyxiation of the second lieutenant of mayor Pamela Aidita Ati Gavilánez.
Quito, La Ecuadorian Prosecutor’s Office has undertaken an investigation into the death by asphyxiation of a soldier in a barracks in the country’s Amazon, and has momentarily detained 18 soldiers in the first proceedings regarding that alleged femicide.
The Ecuadorian Army, in a statement, reported that this Sunday the Prosecutor’s Office detained 18 people who belong to the military institution for eight hours, in compliance with the procedures undertaken by the Public Ministry.
The Ecuadorian Land Force confirmed this Saturday the death by asphyxiation of the second lieutenant of the quartermaster Ati Gavilánez Aidita Pamela, an officer belonging to the Logistics Support Command No. 19.
The soldier’s body was found Saturday morning in the female staff dormitory of the Napo Military Fortin the Amazon province of Orellana (this), and according to an initial report the cause of death is “asphyxiation caused by an airway obstruction while sleeping.”
“As an institution we will continue to act with total transparency, so that this reprehensible act does not go unpunished, and those who are found responsible are judged with the maximum rigor of Ecuadorian laws,” the Army added in the statement released this Sunday.
“We do not allow, nor will we ever allow, these actions that go against people’s rights to life to be repeated in any military unit,” the source emphasized.
For its part, the State Attorney General’s Office, in a message on the X network, indicated that in this case it will apply a investigation protocol for femicides.
“The Prosecutor’s Office is carrying out proceedings after learning about the death of an officer of the Ecuadorian Army, whose body was found with signs of asphyxiation,” wrote the Public Ministry and reiterated that in this case “the Protocol is applied to investigate femicides and other violent deaths of women”.
By: LA HORA Newspaper