October 28, 2024, 7:13 PM
October 28, 2024, 7:13 PM
This Monday, the Justice ordered the preventive detention in jail for nine people who threw explosives at the police who tried to unblock the route that connects Cochabamba with Oruro, precisely in the town of Parotani.
The precautionary hearing lasted more than eight hours and the Prosecutor’s Office asked the Justice to order the arrest of the 10 arrested, but one was released with alternative measures.
“The judge has ordered the preventive detention of nine accused, one part (four) in San Pedro from Sacaba and the other (five), in San Pablo de Quillacollo,” reported Wilder Rivera, lawyer for one of the accused.
All were charged with the alleged crimes of terrorism, sedition, manufacture, trade and possession of explosives, in addition to attack against media security transportation and prevent the exercise of public functions.
During the operation in Parotani, belonging to the Cochabamba municipality of Sipe Sipe, 50 people who were blocking were captured the area in response to an instruction from Evo Morales and its bases. They resisted the operation with the detonation of explosives, which left 14 police officers injured, including one seriously who had part of his leg shattered; but surgeons managed to reconstruct part of his limb.
While, in another precautionary hearing, held on Sunday night, 37 blockers benefited from measures substitutes and will be able to defend themselves in freedom.
Those investigated were captured on Friday in the iPolice intervention in the blockade of the K’ora bridgereported lawyer Manuel Mariscal.
