2024-01-22 13:25:29
Charles Carrera, MPP senator – Frente Amplio
This Friday, the Ministry of the Interior showed a report that indicates that in 2023, 382 homicides were recorded in Uruguay, one case less than the previous year, according to official data. However, some members of the Frente Amplio expressed immediate doubts, arguing that the ministry’s internal statistics suggest higher figures.
Senator Charles Carrera (MPP), supported by internal ministerial sources, stated that the Public Security Management System (SGSP), a computer tool that centralizes police information, presents a figure higher than the official one. According to Carrera, this system indicates that there were 403 murders in the country last year.
The Broad Front senator, Charles Carrera, understands that “there is a makeup” in the figures presented, and spoke of some similar antecedents in the previous period. For example, in Durazno, at the end of 2022, some crime covers were found that did not correspond to the events that occurred, which led to the Prosecutor’s Office carrying out an investigation.
Carrera also recalled the case of the police coordinator of the Maldonado Police, who asked a police section do not include various cattle rustling offenses in the official archives so that the figures did not rise that year.
Independent study does not coincide with data from the Ministry
The Frente Amplio faction has the support of an independent network of technicians who, in collaboration with Carrera’s team, examined last year’s homicides through “open sources of information”, such as the press, applying “standardized criteria at an international level”.
The result obtained was higher than that reported by the Ministry of the Interior, totaling 399 murders.
This analysis also covers data from 2022, a year in which discrepancies between various sources of information stand out. While the Ministry of the Interior reported 383 homicides, the technical study maintains that there were 399 cases. In turn, figures from the Attorney General’s Office indicate 388 murders for that year.
“We say it with pain in our soul, the ministry’s figures are not reliable”said Carrera, who announced that this week he will file a request for access to public information to clarify a striking and systematic growth in deaths officially classified as “doubtful.”
The leftist senator expanded on the explanations for why he has doubts, citing a request for access to public information that found that, In the first half of 2023, there were 108 doubtful deaths, which was more than in all of 2019, when 105 were counted.. Meanwhile, in 2022, there were 203 doubtful deaths that could not be clarified, and the trend is towards an increase.
The “doubtful” deaths They are those in which forensic experts and investigators understand that there was criminality, but it is unknown exactly how it occurred. These cases have shown sustained growth so far in Luis Lacalle Pou’s government: There were 159 cases in 2020, 171 in 2021 and 203 cases in 2022.
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