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The Customs prosecutor, Williams Paredes, denounced this Sunday night that he was kidnapped for a few minutes by the residents of Orinoca, in Oruro, who are organized with the smugglers and guard seven trucks with illegal merchandise. The prosecutor was rescued by members of the Strategic Operational Control (COE).
“We went to the scene of the events to verify and retain the (undocumented) mobility, however, the community members organized with the smugglers to kidnap me and later I have been released,” Paredes told Unitel.
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Given the version circulated by the residents that a young man died in the confrontation with the military, the prosecutor assured that there was no confrontation. He explained that the word of an alleged deceased person was spread in order to dramatize and dramatize the situation, in order to expel the uniformed men from the area.
Paredes reported that the seven vehicles that are at the scene could not be seized.
The Vice Ministry for the Fight Against Smuggling reported that smugglers now use a new “modes operandi”, to alert that there is a wounded person in order to anger the local residents, so that they come out to defend them.
