Marller González and Walter Mayorga met in prison, despite the fact that the Fourth Prosecutor of the Public Ministry accused them of having murdered Sergeant Parra together, allegedly shooting him from an apartment located in a building in El Campito
This Friday afternoon, Judge Lucy del Carmen Terán issued full freedom for the young Walter Mayorga and Marller Gonzáles, imprisoned since 2016 for the alleged murder of a military officer, in Mérida, during the popular protests of 2014.
This was announced by the Observatory of Human Rights from the University of Los Andes through their account on the Twitter social network, where they pointed out that said sentence is given after five unjustified deferrals of the hearing of conclusions and more than five years of delay to start the trial.
The organization pointed out that before the Trial Court handed down the sentence, the Fourth Prosecutor of the Public Ministry, Lupe del Carmen Fernández Rodríguez, requested in her conclusions “the sentence for these young people”, despite not having presented any incriminating evidence during the entire trial. .
Fernández is the same prosecutor who, on December 15, 2020, exercised a suspensive effect on the acquittal sentence handed down to Erickvaldo Márquez Moreno, a young man who was imprisoned for almost four years accused of a murder committed in the 2017 social protests. Despite being innocent, Márquez was able to walk free more than six months later.
Mayorga and González were charged with the crime of intentional homicide qualified with treachery and for futile reasons, provided for and sanctioned in article 406, numeral 2, of the Venezuelan Penal Code, in accordance with article 77, numerals 13 and 83.
The accusation of this crime was for the murder of Miguel Antonio Parra, a GNB sergeant who was shot on March 24, 2014 on Las Américas Avenue in Mérida, near the El Campito sector, while he was removing rubble from the barricades erected by protesters.
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Arbitrary arrests
These young people were arbitrarily detained, without any evidence to incriminate them, two years after Parra’s murder was committed. Walter Mayorga was arrested on January 21, 2016, when he was traveling on a bus to report for military service in a barracks. His wife, Jennifer Vielma, assures that he never participated in the social demonstrations of 2014.
He worked as a farmer in the Campo Elías municipality and had decided to enlist in the National Armed Forces due to the economic crisis. He has a 5-year-old son whom he has only seen through photos and video calls from prison.
Marller González, for his part, worked as a motorcycle taxi driver at the time and did not participate in the social protests either. The day of the murder, he was near the place where Sergeant Parra died because he was going to look for a brother. While waiting for him, a shot also hit him and he had to be transferred to the Los Andes University Hospital. More than two years after this event, on July 5, 2016, he was arbitrarily detained by the police.
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