January 3, 2023, 7:22 AM
January 3, 2023, 7:22 AM
Six days have passed since the burning and destruction of the Departmental Prosecutor’s Office in the area of the Christ the Redeemer monument. It happened after the arrest and transfer to La Paz of Governor Luis Fernando Camacho. For this and other facts there are at least 90 people accused by the Police.
Official reports reveal that the special Fire Department units of the Policeor carried out up to now no expert opinion to establish the true causes of the accident in the absence of a superior order or a requirement from the Prosecutor’s Office itself.
The four-story building of the Departmental Prosecutor’s Office was completely destroyed during the fire, as well as more than 30 vehicles that were seized for various criminal and They were parked in the entity’s main garage.
The building that houses the Prosecutor’s Office since 2003 can no longer be used. According to the criteria of several prosecutors behind the fire “There is something strange that urgently needs to be clarified in order to know the truth.”
Firefighters, through its director, Víctor Benavidez, confirmed that the personnel went to the site of the incident, but only to collect some evidence of this case.
The Fire Director stated that no action has been taken to date. to carry out an expert opinion “to find out the true causes of the fire, how the fire started and what elements were used.” He said that expertise is not possible because there is no higher order, either a fiscal requirement for which up to now the causes of the accident are unknown.
Prosecutors observed that there are many doubts, for example, in the fire of motorized vehicles.
In this case, they said that there was no large detonation in the garage and that it is likely that the vehicles were set on fire. “one by one”.
The Police reported the fire and the deterioration in the same command, at the Santa Cruz police station, as well as the Chacarilla police station. They also reported that there were fires and deterioration in a banking entity of Plan Tres Mil, in another bank on Cristo Redentor avenue and in a KIA brand motorized distributor on the third ring road and Alemania avenue.
Due to the fire at the Prosecutor’s Office and the attack on the Police Command, 11 people underwent an abbreviated procedure and were sentenced to three years in prison. In addition, 16 were sent to the Palmasola prison in a preventive manner because they did not accept the abbreviated procedures.
The president of the Committee for Santa Cruz, Rómulo Calvo, stated that during all the violent attacks there is a balance of almost 209 injureds. Of this number, a young man is seriously ill and is about to lose an eye. In the same way, a journalist who was hit with pellets in the body and other minor injuries, generally polycontusions.
For his part, the deputy commander of the Santa Cruz Police, Colonel Edson Claure, asked the president of the Committee, “a joint effort to pacify Santa Cruz” and, in this way, avoid criminal acts and vandalism in the city. “We are not going to make this scenario a moment of controversy; what we have to look for is the pacification of the population”, said Claure, who also assured that there are wounded in the ranks of the Verde Olivo institution.
Claure and Calvo met this Monday at the Police Command facilities in the context of “a permanent mobilization” that demands the release of the governor Luis Fernando Camacho, incarcerated since December 30 in the Chonchocoro prison, in the highlands of La Paz.
Since Camacho was arrested, social protests have broken out in Santa Cruz. The monument to Christ the Redeemer, whichIt is a few meters from the Police Departmental Command, It was the main scene of violent clashes with the Police.
“The Police are going to wait for the situation to calm down; criminal acts may grow and under the pretext of this scenario, crime will grow. We are not going to be able to attend to this crime, acts of violence, robberies and thefts and traffic acts”, said Claure and recognized the right to protest established in the Constitution. Later, around 9:00 p.m., the Police retaliated again and reported the discovery of Molotov cocktails at a home.
In front of the civic Calvo and parliamentarians from Chile and Europe, Claure Claure said that if there are excesses on the part of the police or self-attacks, they will be investigated. She noted that if police abuse is evidenced, they will be prosecuted.
IN LA PAZ AND COCHABAMBA
Citizens marched to the Police facilities in La Paz in support of the cause of Luis Fernando Camacho and Santa Cruz. In the same way, in Cochabamba, some citizens marched to the Police to express their support for Governor Camacho and for the rights and freedom that Santa Cruz is fighting for.
SANCTIONS FOR ABUSIVE POLICE OFFICErs
The Police assured that if there are abusive troops who exercised violence against citizens, they will be investigated and administrative sanctions will be applied and, if possible, in the criminal area. The deputy commander of the Police, Colonel Edson Claure, assured that the aim is to pacify, but that order will be ensured above all.
