Rosa Maria Palacios He questioned the staging of the transfer of Eric Moreno, alias El Monstruo, and the decision to confine him in the Naval base. The lawyer maintained that the image disseminated by the authorities responds more to a symbolic strategy than to a sustainable prison policy, and warned that the Armed forces They are not prepared to take custody of highly dangerous inmates.
“Eric Moreno, alias El Monstruo, appeared shaved to simulate these operations that Bukele carries out. The only thing missing was that, since it was summer, they took him out in white long underwear, right? No, they didn’t have the heart for that, but at least they shaved him and took him to the Naval Base,” he said.
“The Naval Base is a prison that at this moment has to be closed. What is being discussed from the Navy is: we are military, we do not have the specialty of caring for prisoners, and also El Monstruo has lost all hegemony, according to police sources. He was in Paraguay fleeing because he has lost hegemony within the criminal networks of Peru,” he added.
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Palacios stressed that the severity of the sentence that Moreno may receive is not in dispute, but he questioned the viability of using the Naval Base as a detention center for criminal leaders.
“I’m not saying that he doesn’t have to be in prison for 35 years, of course he has to be in prison for 35 years, but if each leader of an extortion and hitman gang is going to be put in the Naval Base, which has eight cells, it will be very small, very quickly, just in case,” he said.
