Santo Domingo. It was postponed to the next Tuesday October 14 the audience to know the measure of coercion against the 11 agents of the National Police accused of killing five men during an operation carried out last September 10 in the sector The Barranquitaof this city.
The accused are the Major Álvaro Paredes Paniaguahe captain José Ignacio Gómez Rodríguezhe second lieutenant Domingo Antonio de los Santos Vargasthe Yohandy Encarnación ropes and Geyser Francisco Álvarez Rodríguezand the satin Adrián Miguel Villalona Pinedaall assigned to Department of Investigation of Organized Crime and Complex Casesbased in National Police Palacein Santo Domingo.
They also face charges Hansel Michel Cuevas Carrasco, Socrates Fidel Happy Happy, Hairo Mateo Morillo, César Augusto Martínez Trinidad and José Octavio Jiménez Peñabelonging to the Central Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DICRIM).
The victims were identified as Elvis Antonio Martínez Rodríguez (Deivito)26 years old; Julio Alberto Gómez (La Tabla)28; Carlos Enrique Guzmán Navarro (El Charly)40; Edward Bernardo Peña Rodríguez35; and José Vladimir Valerio Estevez25.
He Public Ministry described the event as a extrajudicial executionensuring that it has sufficient evidence that show that the operation was planned to murder the victims and later eliminate evidence.
According to the accusatory file, the results of the autopsies, ballistic analyzes and gunpowder residue tests confirm that none of the victims fired shots and that the shells extracted of their bodies correspond to regulation weapons used by police officers themselves.
Likewise, the toxicological tests They determined that no controlled substances were detected in the bodies of the deceased, discarding the initial version that the men had fallen during an alleged exchange of shots.
The case, which has generated great social outrage in Santiago and nationally, he is considered one of the most serious episodes of police abuse registered in recent years in the Dominican Republic.
