The Police at the service of the regime of Daniel Ortega raided without a court order this Tuesday, April 12, the house of the opposition Yolanda Gonzalez Escobar Originally from the Netherlands neighborhood, in Masaya.
The 54-year-old citizen filed a complaint Article 66 that since five in the morning, a supposed police agent dressed in civilian clothes was guarding her house and at eight in the morning, when she was about to leave for work, a patrol intercepted her, the officers told her that they would take her into custody because she was organizing a mass in the San Miguel church, in the city of flowers.
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“The officers wanted to put me in the truck, but I told them no, that if they wanted they could go to my house, because I have nothing to hide. They told me they would check my bag. They asked me about my cell phone and I told them that I wasn’t around»; then they came to the house and searched it, leaving everything in disarray,” Escobar denounced.
«Once they checked the whole house they told me that I was organizing a mass to be held on Wednesday (April 13) in the San Miguel church (in Masaya). I told them that I did not know but how good they were informing me because I am to go as every Catholic I am, “added the opponent.
She also pointed out that the officials of the Ortega dictatorship warned her not to go to mass because they could arrest her as they have done with dozens of opponents.
“I told them why I wasn’t going to go if it’s Easter, and we have the right to go, but the officer insisted that I don’t get into trouble, as if going to church is a crime,” she said annoyed.
Police threaten her for evidencing siege against her
Another of Yolanda González’s complaints was that the police claimed the fact that she takes photographs of the officer who maintains constant surveillance in her house. “The police told me that if the photo reaches the internet they would put me in jail.”
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On repeated occasions, González Escobar has been the victim of aggression by the Daniel Ortega regime. In January 2021, he was subject to illegal detentions and raids, for which he denounces that he fears for his physical integrity and that of his family.
They raid the house of “Commander Fafo”
It was also learned that on the same day, agents from the Ortega Police’s Directorate of Special Operations (DOEP) raided the house of the opponent’s relatives. Darwin Potosmé, known as “Commander Fafo” in Monimbó, Masaya, a young man shot in the eye on June 17, 2018, during social protests.
According to the Masaya al Día platform, the riot police arrived without a search warrant and broke into the house, claiming that they were looking for political propaganda.
“In addition, they threatened a brother and sister of Darwin (Potosme), who they pointed out was organizing a supposed mass in honor of those killed in the Masaya protests, which they are unaware of (…) The riot police withdrew and threatened the family to imprison them “if they are disturbing the peace,” said the local media outlet.
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On the other hand, the relatives denounced that before the presence and raid by the Police, Mrs. Maria Andrea Joseph, The mother of the murdered young man fainted.
Since the beginning of April and on the eve of the commemoration of the four years of the civic rebellion of 2018, the police presence and harassment in Masaya has intensified, as has the hate speech by the vice president of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo .
