At least 15 people have died and 20 have been injured in a new brawl in a prison in Ecuadorafter the National Police of Ecuador had to act to calm the clashes.
Around 1:30 p.m. (local time) this Monday, a shooting was recorded inside the Cotopaxi Number 1 prison, near the city of Latacunga, in the center of the Andes of Ecuador, as reported by ‘El Comercio ‘. The National Service for Comprehensive Attention to Prisoners of Liberty (SNAI) has confirmed that specialized groups of the National Police entered the prison during the afternoon and at night they have regained control, while military teams guarded the surroundings.
According to images of people traveling along a road near the prison, several inmates took refuge on the roof of the building to try to avoid the problems recorded inside. Likewise, it was rumored on social networks that some of the inmates of the female pavilion had warned of the incidents and feared that the violence would eventually affect them directly.
Among the people killed is Leandro Norero, alias ‘El Patron’, who was criminally prosecuted in Peru for drug trafficking from 2014 to 2020, when his lawyers showed false evidence of his alleged death from covid-19, allowing him to get out of prison, has picked up ‘El Universal’. “We must report that, unfortunately, there are people deprived of their liberty who have died and people who have been injured. From what we can know, preliminarily, the citizen Leandro Norero would be among the victims,” the deputy director of the SNAI, Jorge, told the media. Flowers.