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“I will clarify that everything I am going to talk about right now is in all my statements, from Sunday to today that was the last contact I had with the Technical Agency for Criminal Investigation“Dr. Edgar José Velásquez Orellana said this Thursday night on the program conclusions from CNN. Velasquez is a key witness in the case of Keyla Martínez, Young man who died for mechanical suffocation according to the Public Ministry.
“On Saturday, February 6, at about nine o’clock at night, we were intercepted by two police patrols. They signal to me to stop. I pay attention. They ask me for my documents. I give my doctor’s card and my license. of driving and the documents of the car in which I am driving “.
After reviewing the papers, according to the doctor’s account, they asked him if he knew they were on curfew. “I said yes and therefore I was already going to my house. The officer in charge referred me to a few words that I didn’t really pay attention to. I didn’t pay attention to him. And he asked if you would leave me talking alone. He immediately gave us the order to get off the car. “
According to the doctor, after they got off the car the officers opened the four doors of the car and also the trunk. “I asked them why they were opening my car. I’m not carrying anything. I’m not doing anything. That’s why they were doing this. The officer gave the order for me to be handcuffed. And that bothered me. a bit because they were treating me in a way that I had never had such an experience with. I asked them why they were doing this. I’m not a criminal. “
“He told me what he thought of me, who I was to make such comments. He gave the order for me to go up with Keyla to the police patrol, and gave the order for an officer to take the my car for the e-mail”.
“It was like two-thirty. They only handcuffed me. I was still telling them, we’re uniformed. We have to take care of them. You take care of me outside. The day they get to a hospital I’m going to take care of them. They don’t have to do this. kind of stuff. We’re not doing anything to be treated that way. “
“I remember I mentioned to them that they were hurting me, then they asked me that if someone had hit me, I tell them no, but it’s that the handcuffs will leave bruises on my hands when they take them off.”
“Keyla, all the way in the straw of the cart tried to reassure me, she was telling me, Edgar, doctor, reassure me, don’t argue with them, they’re bothering you. Listen to me. She treated me to calm down throughout the course we come to the police station”.
Once they entered the police station, the doctor explained that they were taken to a person to have their personal data written down. “We had three or four people at the time. Keyla was taken over by the police, and the officers by me. I want to explain that at no time did they let me put on my mask when they took me down. the vehicle and I didn’t take the handcuffs either. In the data collection, they took my personal belongings from me. “
He then adds that officers removed him and had him identify his act. And he adds that he kept insisting that they not do this, that he was no criminal. “I was told that the university went through you and not you through the university. When I signed the cards, it was when they took the handcuffs off me. After taking the data from Keyla, the women police took her away. by the sky “.
Then they took him to him. They were given adjoining cells. In the first was Keyla. “She was standing, holding on to the bars, she was alone, she was crying. And she was saying she hadn’t done anything. That’s why they were shutting her down. They were taking her out. Then they put me in the cell”.
The doctor explained that in the cell that put him there were ten people. “Before entering the cell I asked three times to be allowed to make a call. After filling in my details they read me my rights. One of them said he was entitled to a call. I asked for them and they didn’t let me. “
“I had never had this kind of experience. One on entering the cell he does not know what he will find. The people who were with me in this tragic night they were humble, hardworking. People who were leaving their jobs after nine o’clock, and who were taken to the cell to be outside the curfew hours. “
Edgar Velasquez asserts that being close the cells of both could be heard, but not seen. And that he encouraged her by telling her that already in the morning they would be out and that what had happened would be just an anecdote to laugh with friends, but that she was crying, and that the others who were with him in the cell they were trying to cheer him up.
He adds that after about 25 minutes they took him out of the cell and they took a picture of him. After that he returned to the cell and that was when Keyla asked to go to the bathroom and was taken away by a female police officer. “She was crying and begging to be taken out.”
“I asked her to sing to me, she sang very well. We were trying to calm her down and talk. All of a sudden she said I want to die. I’m going to hang up with my sweater. I “I told him not to say that. Words have power. Let’s get out of here, calm down. Don’t say these things. Like three or five minutes after I said that he didn’t answer us again. Then we started to About ten minutes later a policeman arrived with a flashlight and lit the cell of Keyla and quickly backed away and took four people. They opened the cell of Keyla and they pulled her by weight, one person at each end. Keyla was unconscious. I asked that they please let me take her vital signs, that I was a doctor, that they let me check her, they ignored me, they didn’t listen to me and they left. “
“Then someone came back and took a picture and left again. I thought Keyla had been taken to a hospital and was in a better place than us. I never imagined any tragedy. They took her away and at six in the morning the deputy commander in charge of the police station and asked who the doctor was, I identified myself and asked if I happened to have the ID card, I answered yes and that for what I wanted it, he said he had to make a statement. I asked her what, and she told me her friend is dead. I can’t explain how he feels at that moment. “
Edgar Velasquez conclude by saying that at seven in the morning they took him out of the cell and they told him that he was already free. He later called for a call and spoke to his father to pick him up. A short video, in which the doctor and Keyla were arrested went viral in the last hours.
“Those responsible must go to jail”: irma lópez, legal representative
The legal representatives of the family of Keyla Martínez they demand that investigations be done well so that the culprits are imprisoned.
irma López, Legal representative of the Rodríguez family, said that “in the hands of police they took her life, when they took her to the hospital emergency she no longer had vital signs, she had blows to her body, she had already was strangled, the police had already killed her. ” Lopez has said that hours after the incident that the relatives arrived at the police station to ask for Keyla’s personal belongings, but the headquarters was already protected with a large number of uniforms.
“The Public Prosecutor’s Office of the Public Ministry de Torn, at the right time did not preserve the scene of the crime which in this case was the police station, the prosecutor had to act since the doctors told him the condition of the body, “said the legal defender.
The lawyer stated that thank God and the pressure of the town of Intibucá, the Public Ministry assign two prosecutors with high experience in human rights violations.
“We will get to the last elements of research, these police are being required and so it must be with all those who were that night on duty they must practice scientific tests, extensive research, not run with a tax requirement because then dictate 1 dismissal by the courts, we want an act of formal prosecution “.
Lopez said they will take those responsible to prison, do not blame the entire National Police, so they ask to individualize the case.
norm Rodriguez, Great of Keyla Martínez, He explained that his daughter provided health services to many families in the village.
“She respected the authorities and it’s amazing how she ended up dead at the hands of those who should protect her, but her death will not go unpunished, we will ask for help from international organizations and human rights, The death of my daughter must set a precedent “.