The priest Uriel Vallejos and a group of parishioners managed to leave this Thursday from the parish house of Jesús de la Divina Misericordia, in Sébaco, where They remained besieged by the National Police since last Monday afternoonwhen riot police forcefully entered the church, of which Vallejos is the parish priest.
The more than 70 riot police who had occupied the Infant Jesus of Prague chapel, the Catholic temple and the San Luis Gonzaga school left this Thursday around 10:00 am, they confirmed to CONFIDENTIAL sources close to the Church, who detailed that the evacuation of the priest and the parishioners was achieved through a religious commission.
Sources from the Catholic Church tell CONFIDENCIAL that the evacuation was achieved through a commission of religious. The police also left the temple
The newspaper La Prensa published that Vallejos, who suffers from diabetes, is in good health, despite the fact that his diet during the days of confinement was scarce.
In previous interviews, the priest had confirmed that they had no access to food because the kitchen was under police custody. In communication with TV-Merced, of the Diocese of Matagalpa, he indicated that they resisted with juices, apples, cookies, and they did not have electricity.
The religious thanked the population that responded to his call for help last Monday, when police officers entered by force to take away the equipment of Radio Católica de Sébaco, one of the ten stations closed to the Diocese of Matagalpa, but they were unable to purpose because the faithful had guarded them before they entered.
The policemen attacked the population and launched tear gas, while the priest and six Catholic faithful took refuge in the parish house, which remained surrounded by riot police.
The Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights (Cenidh) reported this Wednesday that the priest’s conditions worsened, his food was almost exhausted.
“They cannot go out, the Police have surrounded them and closed the street that adjoins the temple. What does the Ortega Murillo regime intend? Let them starve to death?” Cenidh claimed on Twitter.
The father was informed that the police entered the school —of which he is director—, in his office, in the administration and broke the cameras of the study center. In the church they also took all the sound equipment. “They have stolen everything they have found there; it is reprehensible”, lamented the priest on Tuesday.
He added that the violent action by the Police is “incomprehensible” and said that “they are throwing themselves at the people” who defended what they themselves have given to the Church – in relation to the equipment.
This week the Ortega regime dropped the guillotine on twelve media outlets in Matagalpa, which are majority Catholic. Later, he directed the assault against the Sébaco radio station, generating a frontal attack against the religious population. This Thursday he cornered Monsignor Rolando Álvarez, head of the Diocese of Matagalpa and apostolic administrator of the Diocese of Estelí, by means of a deployment of riot police, preventing priests and faithful from entering his house, in the Archbishop’s Curia, located in the north of the country. .
