On November 24, at around 3:00 in the afternoon, four Ortega Police vans braked abruptly in front of the house of retired journalist Henry Briceño, and 20 henchmen of the Nicaraguan dictatorship jumped out with great fanfare. by the Chief Commissioner of the Police, Lázaro Clemente Quintanilla Álvarez.
Between shouts and races, they spread throughout the communicator’s house; Thus began the operation to kidnap and exile an entire family, including an 11-year-old boy.
The operation against Briceño’s family, in the municipality of San Rafael del Sur, was classified as “monstrous” and comparable to the exiles of the Hitlerite fascists in Germany in the 1940s and was directed from Managua by the advisory minister on issues of Ortega’s security, General Commissioner Horacio (Rochón) Rocha.
One month after that kidnapping and exile, Briceño made public a message in which he directly accused Major Commissioner Quintanilla Álvarez, police chief in San Rafael del Sur, of commanding the 20 police officers during the assault on the house, whom marks “thief.”
The details of what was stolen
The communicator exiled along with your family unit, on the occasion of last Christmas, reminds the police chief that what he committed is a crime against humanity; However, he does not hold a grudge against him but rather desires justice, which will come to put the perpetrators of crimes such as the one committed against his family in the dock.
Briceño said: «I must declare to the world, which knows this atrocity committed against my person and family, that I do not harbor hatred, much less resentment, but rather a desire for justice. This will come and the primary criminal accusation, from now on, is against you, Senior Commissioner Lázaro Clemente Quintanilla Álvarez,” says the journalist.
Likewise, he directly accuses the Ortega police chief of being a “thief” because he ordered the guards under command to steal all the property in his house and some cash that he kept inside his room.
«I have no doubt that the thief, Major Commissioner Lázaro Clemente Quintanilla Álvarez, is enjoying a merry Christmas with the two thousand one hundred dollars that, without a doubt, he found in one of the closets in my room. Money that was intended to purchase construction materials on the Monday following the assault on our residence.
Likewise, he details that among what was stolen was a piano and a guitar belonging to his little son.
«When you look into the eyes of your children, your wife and other family members, remember the damage you have done, with your criminal attitude, to an honest family in San Rafael del Sur. Enjoy the product of your excesses today because sooner rather than later you will warm a judicial chair and you will enjoy the “climate” of a prison made by your masters.
Briceño details in his text made public on social networks, that he does not forget the face and personal data of the Ortega police officer nor does he forget when he kidnapped them and abandoned them at night in the Tico-Nicaraguan mountain a month ago, they are well protected.
«He had no compassion for an eleven-year-old boy, my son. “Such criminal action is already in the hands of the world and those who will know how to apply justice to you,” accuses the exiled Nicaraguan.
Among the assets stolen from Briceño and his family were Campestre el Vivero, Cabañas El Vivero, Motel La Loma and Hostal El Central, in addition to his home.
