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Santiago.- Judge of the Permanent Attention Office of the Judicial District of Santiago, Yerixa Cabral, will resume this Thursday, October 9, the hearing for the request for coercive measures against 11 members of the National Police, accused of having participated in the death of five men during an alleged irregular operation that occurred on September 10 in the La Barranquita sector of this city.
The hearing is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. in the Second Collegiate Court, after having been postponed last week at the request of the defense lawyers, who asked for time to study the accusatory file and for the victims' families to be present in the process.
The agents remain detained in the small jail of the Palace of Justice of Santiago and will be transferred again this Thursday for the continuation of the hearing.
Among those processed are the elders Álvaro Paredes Paniagua and Hansel Michel Cuevas Carrasco; Captain José Ignacio Gómez Rodríguez; Second Lieutenant Domingo de los Santos Vargas; Corporals Yohandy Encarnación, Geyser Francisco Álvarez Rodríguez and César Augusto Martínez Trinidad; Sergeant Major Sócrates Fidel Féliz Féliz; Sergeant Hairo Mateo Morillo; and Privates Adrián Miguel Villalona Pineda and José Octavio Jiménez Peña.
The victims were identified as Elvis Antonio Martínez Rodríguez (Deivito), 26 years old; Julio Alberto Gómez (La Tabla), 28; Carlos Enrique Guzmán Navarro (Charly or Charli Chasc), 40; Edward Bernardo Peña Rodríguez, 35; and José Vladimir Valerio Estévez, 25 years old.
The Public Ministry requested 18 months of preventive prison as a coercive measure and that the process be declared a complex case, by imputing them with criminal association and voluntary homicide.
According to the record, the police would have arrived in three vehicles to a shopping center in La Barranquita, where the victims were, and opened fire without a word. Subsequently, they allegedly removed the DVRs from the security cameras and the cell phones of several people who recorded the event, with the purpose of hiding evidence and hindering the investigation.
