The four policemen who were in the Naco detachment, in the National District, had a direct participation in the death of David of the Saintswho was beaten with his hands tied by three inmates.
This is what the Public Ministry establishes when pointing out that the captain Domingo Alberto Rodríguez Rodríguez, Second Lieutenant Germán García de la Cruz, Corporal Alfonso Decena Hernández and Private San Manuel González García (or Sari Manuel González García), They did nothing to stop the inmates as they beat the 24-year-old.
A press release from the Attorney General’s Office indicates that civilians Santiago Mateo Victoriano, Michael Pérez Ramos and Jean Carlos Martínez Peña were responsible for the blows, despite the fact that the agents were in charge of the security and custody of the young De los Santos Correa, after he was arrested for displaying an alleged threatening attitude against an employee of one of the Ágora Mall stores.
The prosecution body adds that the death was caused with the help of the accused members of the National Policefor the act of locking him up illegally, with his hands handcuffed behind his back and for failing to fulfill his duty as guarantor, “because, contrary to acting in accordance with the law, the agents failed in their obligation and materialized a conduct of co-perpetrators against the acts of torture or barbarism committed against De los Santos”.
“When the three detainees beat the victim, instead of intervening to guarantee his integrity, the police officers proceeded to spray pepper spray in the cell”, which shows that “they always had control of the situation, knowledge, but above all that They participated actively to provide the active conditions for the materialization of the imputed criminal type, for which the co-authorship of the action is configured, ”indicates the statement from the Attorney General’s Office.
It establishes that police officers, in addition to being co-authors of acts of torture or barbarismthey lied to the victim’s relatives, to whom they indicated that the young man was well in the hands of the Public Ministry, in addition to hiding from them “in a burlesque and inhuman way, that by that date the victim was admitted in critical conditions in the Hospital Traumatology Dr. Francisco Moscoso Puello, struggling between life and death, as a result of the acts of torture or barbarism committed by the accused”.
The case has been provisionally classified as a violation of articles 186, 198, 265, 266, 295, 303 and 304.4numerals 2 and 9, and 341 of the Dominican Penal Code, and article 153, numerals 3 and 4, of the Organic Law of the National Police (590-16).
Sentence of up to 30 years
Those charged in the death of David of the Saints24 years old, could receive sentences of up to 30 years, as established by the Dominican Penal Code in its article 303-4 on acts of torture or barbarism.
