The former Attorney General of the Republic, Francisco Dominguez Britowarned yesterday Wednesday that the extrajudicial executions do not decrease crime because “practice has shown” that the police officers who participate in these homicides are part of “specialized teams” who end up being “hitmen and kidnappers” used by organized crime.
Domínguez Brito recalled the cases of Ramon Dario Cabrera (Cabrerita) and Fernando de los Santos (la Soga), former police officers who were believed to be popular in the neighborhoods for killing criminals and were later hired by the same criminals.
He maintained that, although it is not a new practice contrary to Rule of Lawthe cases of deaths of citizens by police officers “have increased considerably“and that the figures released they do not correspond with reality.
The former attorney of the Republic on two occasions and former prosecutor of the National District explained to Free Diary: “There are many modalities in extrajudicial executions“, which includes leaving the bodies at the scene and being verified by Inacif and prosecutors, but, in other homicides of this nature, the victims are reported missing or their remains appear in bushes and are quantified as indefinite deaths.
According to data provided by the authorities, last year they lost their lives 189 citizens in “police interventions“.
For Domínguez Brito, the rise in crime has a lot to do with impunity in the investigation and in the prosecution. Likewise, he understands that the so-called “exchanges of shots” increase to the extent that there is a perception that crime increases.
“He crime is fought with intelligencewith evidence, with elements, as established by law. In this wave of extrajudicial executions They are killing people who have never committed crimes,” he said.
They are not investigated
Domínguez Brito regretted that life is not respected in the country, even that of criminals to whom the Constitution also guarantees it. He argued that it is also violated with the extrajudicial executions he principle of equality because when the cases “do not generate public opinion because they are poor, without godparents, even if they are honest,” those deaths are forgotten.
Free Diary echoed the case of the young man Ramsel Junior Garcíawho died in December at the hands of a member of a patrol and one month after his death there is no submission and the murderer has not been identified either.
Article 26 of the Organic Law of the Public MinistryNo. 133-11, establishes that this must “exercise the functional direction of the investigations of punishable acts of public action carried out by the police or any other executive investigative or security agency and supervise the legality of their actions.”
A few years ago, the current attorney, Yeni Berenice Reynososaid he was not in favor of the death penalty because “it is contrary to what a Rule of Law“. He also stated that he has “worked hard to combat, the extrajudicial executions“.
