The Corps of Scientific Criminal and Criminal Investigations (CICPC) denounced the media campaign surrounding the death of the opposition political activist, Edwin Alexander Santos Quiñones, and reported that the death occurred as a result of a traffic accident aboard a motorcycle when The unfortunate man was returning from his workplace.
The director of the CICPC, Douglas Rico, detailed this Friday on his social networks that Santos’ body “was located on the main road via El Nula, adjacent to the Arenosa Bridge, Alberto Adriani parish, Fernández Feo municipality, Táchira state, without signs vital product of a traffic accident after the motorcycle he was driving hit a tree.”
Disinformation campaign
Likewise, Rico rejected all the false news spread by some media outlets that tried to manipulate and attribute the event to the National Government.
International news portals cited alleged statements by his relatives to regional media that Santos was put in a van last Wednesday and since that day they lost communication with him.
Even the party far-right Popular Will He blamed the Government for the unfortunate event and pointed out alleged signs of torture on Santos’ lifeless body. Likewise, the leader of the extremist opposition María Corina Machado echoed the false news with a publication on her X account.
True cause of death
However, the CICPC issued a statement in which it specified that the opposition leader died as a result of the impact of his motorcycle against a tree when he was heading to his place of residence in El Piñal, Táchira state, from the town of El Nula, Apure state. , where he worked.
After the legal autopsy carried out by Senamecf experts, the following results were obtained:
- Neurogenic Shock due to skull fracture due to severe head trauma.
- Facial trauma.
- Musculoskeletal trauma of the left leg
- Blunt wounds in the left maxillary mental region in the context of a road incident
In that sense, the Ministry of Interior Relations, Justice and Peace ordered investigations to begin to determine those responsible for the campaign of disinformation and lies against the security organs of the Venezuelan State, Douglas Rico reported.
