May 10, 2024, 8:49 PM
May 10, 2024, 8:49 PM
The Prosecutor’s Office opened two criminal proceedings to investigate the deaths of three alleged kidnappers who were executed in the municipality of Ivirgarzamawhile the Police are looking for a fourth person involved, who fled to avoid being lynched.
The Vice Minister of Citizen Security, Roberto Ríos, explained that the first process that the Prosecutor’s Office activated it’s for murder and the second for the alleged crimes of aggravated robbery and alleged kidnapping.
In the first case, it is investigated to the people who beat and burned to the three alleged kidnappers, but in this process there are still no people identified. While in the other process the kidnapping that was perpetrated by the deceased and a fourth person involved who is a fugitive is being investigated.
“These people (deceased) were already arrested, the case was being referred to the Public Ministry, I had fully identified these people and work was being done to identify a fourth (person involved), Ríos reported.
On Monday, a mob of residents of Ivirgarzama entered the cells of the Special Force to Fight Crime (Felcc) of the municipality of Puerto Villarroel, where those were arrested to be taken out by force and taking them to the main square, where they were beaten and burned to death.
The vice minister said that the Police are looking for identify the fugitive who participated of the robbery and kidnapping of a couple and regretted that in Ivirgarzama the residents decided to enter into a “pact of silence” to not reveal those who executed the alleged criminals.
“These people are victims of multiple contusions, external and internal injuries, injuries to the skull, They have burns of 60%, 70% and 80% on the body. The Public Ministry has carried out a series of investigative acts, which in a certain way are leading us to identify the authors, inciters, accomplices and any person who participated in the criminal act investigated,” said the departmental prosecutor of Beni, Osvaldo, about the investigation. Tejerina.
Among the men who were lynched was a 17-year-old medical student, who He allegedly participated in the kidnapping of a couple, from whom he intended to steal her vehicle that was for sale, posing as clients.
