SANTO DOMINGO.- The Public Ministry requested preventive detention, as a measure of coercion, against four police officers and three civilians involved in the death of David de los Santos Correa, savagely beaten while detained in the police stationl of the Naco sector, in this capital.
Those responsible for the death of young De los Santos Correa are Captain Domingo Alberto Rodríguez Rodríguez, Second Lieutenant Germán García de la Cruz, Corporal Alfonso Decena Hernández and Private San Manuel González García (or Sari Manuel González García).
Also, civilians Santiago Mateo Victoriano, Michael Pérez Ramos and Jean Carlos Martínez Peña, who were held in the jail cell of the police detachment of the Naco sector, in the National District, in which the accused agents took the victim on April 27, after arresting him in Agora Mall, where the security of the shopping plaza had held him.
According to the request for a coercive measure filed with the Judicial Office of Permanent Attention Services by Kelvyn Colón, interim prosecutor of the National District, the aforementioned agents were in charge of the detachment and were responsible for the security and custody of young De los Santos Correaafter he was arrested for exhibiting an alleged threatening attitude against an employee of one of the stores in the plaza located on John F. Kennedy Avenue.
The employee’s colleagues first alerted a police officer who was shopping in the plaza and then Agora Mall security, who detained him and alerted the police officers who showed up minutes later.
The preliminary autopsy report describes that, externally, the victim presentedabrasion in the right frontal region, bilateral palpebral edema, conjunctival hemorrhage, contusions with abrasions on the elbows, circular abrasions on both wrists, edema on both wrists and back of the hands, abrasions on the hypochondrium and right flank, dorsal region, lumbar region and legs, epidermolysis in the wrists, back of the hands, scrotum and lumbar region, causing a severe blunt head trauma that caused his death.
The file indicates that the civilians Mateo Victoriano, Pérez Ramos and Martínez Peña associated with the police to kill the victim.since they dealt him multiple contusive blows to the skull and to different parts of the body.
He explains that the death was caused with the help of the accused members of the National Police, by illegally locking him up, with his hands handcuffed behind his back and by failing to fulfill his duty as guarantor, since, contrary to acting In accordance with the law, the agents failed in their obligation and materialized a conduct of co-perpetrators in the face of the acts of torture or barbarism committed against De los Santos Correa.
The Public Ministry establishes that when the three detainees beat the victim, instead of intervening to guarantee his integrity, the police officers proceeded to spray pepper spray in the cell, which shows that “They always had control of the situation, knowledge, but above all they actively participated to provide the active conditions for the materialization of the imputed criminal type, for which the co-authorship of the action is configured.”
When reporting on the request for a measure, the prosecutor Colón also explained that the police officers processed the transfer of the victim to the Francisco Moscoso Puello hospital with the 9-1-1 Emergency System, where, on April 29, his relatives they located and managed his transfer to Darío Contreras, where he died on May 1, as a result of the acts of torture and barbarism inferred by the accused.
He explained that the Police agents, in addition to being co-authors of acts of torture or barbarism, lied to the victim’s relatives, to whom they indicated that the young man was well in the hands of the Public Ministryin addition to hiding from them “in a burlesque and inhuman way, that by that date the victim was hospitalized in critical conditions at the Dr. Francisco Moscoso Puello Traumatological Hospital, struggling between life and death, as a result of acts of torture or barbarism committed by the accused”.
The case has received the provisional legal classification of violation of articles 186, 198, 265, 266, 295, 303 and 304.4, numerals 2 and 9, and 341 of the Dominican Penal Code, and article 153, numerals 3 and 4, of the Organic Law of the National Police (590-16).
