FMLN Secretary General Oscar Ortiz condemned the incident and called it a “terrorist.” The attorney general reported that there are three detainees allegedly responsible in fact and one is injured. Of the FMLN there are two dead and two more injured who are being treated at the Rosales.
Nidia Díaz, head of a faction of the FMLN, denounced this afternoon that after a rally in the Constitución circle, a caravan of FMLN militants was attacked by the candidate for mayor of San Salvador, Rogelio Canals. they were heading to the party headquarters in downtown San Salvador known as the “229”.
“The shots came from a blue sedan that crossed and pulled out a gun and started firing at his comrades,” Diaz said.
At the end of the night the police announced that two died, while according to Diaz there is another who is debating between life and death in the Intensive Care Unit of Rosales Hospital and others are injured receiving attention at Rosales Hospital, his condition is delicate, Diaz said, through an audio he sent to reporters.
The names of the dead are: Glòria Rogel de López and Joan de Déu Portillo Tejada, FMLN sources reported.
Attorney General Raúl Melara reported at night that what happened is “serious.” “There has been an attack on supporters of a political party and it has resulted in two deaths and five injuries. This is serious, the election contest cannot become a bloodbath. We are already investigating, we will prosecute the responsible, “he wrote on Twitter.
This is how the bed of the vehicle where the FMLN militants were transported looked after the attack. Deputy Nidia Diaz made this complaint. Photo EDH / Courtesy
“It is a total crime to attack people in this way, expresses intolerance and hatred that is encouraging Nayib Bukele to the population, the electoral rules are not these, I ask the prosecutor to take action on the matter and the Court Supreme Electoral, “the FMLN leader said.
“A comrade has already died and another comrade is in intensive care, there are wounded, this is the hatred that Bukele fosters, a dictatorship never again,” Diaz explained early on before it was confirmed that there were two dead.
“We are outraged. We want to condemn this terrorist act, on behalf of our party, send a message of repudiation, of condemnation, to this vile criminal act that this day at around 06:25 pm was perpetrated by a group of gunmen aboard a car that deliberately provoked a vehicle transporting our duly identified militant comrades coming from an activity, “FMLN Secretary General Oscar Ortiz said in an impromptu lecture he gave at Rosales Hospital.
This fact is very serious, Ortiz pointed out and said that they had already contacted the prosecutor to start the investigation expeditiously. That it is also up to the Police to raise the facts.
In this regard, Bukele reported a few minutes from the FMLN conference that police had managed to capture two subjects riding in the blue sedan, “suspected of shooting FMLN militants. One of the suspects is being operated on. ‘urgency, as he also has bullet wounds in his abdomen,’ ‘the president said.
The attorney general who was also present at Rosales Hospital confirmed Bukele’s version, however, he spoke of three arrested for the bloody fact and that one is injured.
Ortiz pointed out that they have previously received repeated signals of threats, of blackmail, but that the FMLN would not be intimidated, but they have always warned that democratic exercise should prevail and not violence, in “having the person most violent, the most rapist of all who is the President of the Republic, who incites violence, hatred and confrontation and not just through his tweets, “Ortiz said.
I regret the last thing I saw from what is called President of the Republic, “I at least do not know at this time, I do not know this guy who is in the presidency, because I think he is a savage, this leading the country to a chaos, to an unnecessary situation of social confrontation, then we will have more unfortunate facts of which we are witnessing “, Ortiz reflected.
“Murdering in public, in front of numerous witnesses and in an electoral context, a brutal and savage act that especially damages democratic coexistence. Investigating, persecuting and arresting is unavoidable. Blood-stained elections would be disgusting. Justice is the only way,” he wrote in his Twitter account the priest José María Tojeira, director of social pastoral care at the UCA.
The Office for the Defense of Human Rights posted on Twitter its “strong condemnation of the criminal action taken against FMLN militants, who were the victims of a gun attack, in the afternoon of “This Sunday, in the center of San Salvador. The fact happened after they were returning from a rally,” says the PDDH.
Other MPLN deputies joined the public outcry. “I report that at 6:20 pm it was attacked by a brigade of duly identified comrades of the FMLN, between 11 Avinguda Nord and 1a. Carrer Ponent. This attack on our comrades leaves 4 wounded and one dead. and to the PNC an immediate investigation and action “, posted on her Twitter, the deputy Yanci Urbina.
“The president’s hate speech generates violence and death. This afternoon, FMLN colleagues were attacked in the center of San Salvador, resulting in 4 injuries and one death. The Public Prosecutor’s Office must act immediately, the killers will not control the Assembly. We swear to win, “FMLN leader Lorena Penya said on Twitter.
FMLN sources reported that there are two people 2 pipes and a stable.
Meanwhile, police on their Twitter account reported that there was indeed an attack on FMLN people in downtown San Salvador.
“We have begun to carry out the actions of investigation and tracking of those responsible for this infamous fact, as the Police will not allow violence due to the election campaign,” the PNC published.
According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, “alleged Alliance fans fired at the FMLN premises”, but FMLN sources told El Diari d’Avui that it was gunmen who attacked who were selling following the caravan, apparently in a state of intoxication, but they were not fans of the Alliance, say the sources.
The Attorney General convened the general secretaries of all political parties to an urgent meeting for tomorrow Monday in his office.
“Mr. Attorney General: Count on my presence and the support of SAND in this very serious situation that has been generated. We expect the presence of other presidents or secretaries and not delegates,” he posted on Twitter, the president of the ‘Coena, Erick Salguero.
“ARENA strongly condemns political violence, which attacks security, life, democracy and human rights. These actions are the visible result of incitement to hatred, intolerance and division,” Salguero added.
“We condemn this act of violence that has claimed the lives of several FMLN militants and we stand in solidarity with the families of the victims. We reject hate speech and demand speedy justice; this country must never again tolerate political violence, “our Time party expressed on Twitter.
Assembly Speaker Mario Ponce, of the PCN, condemned the attack and demanded that the state’s institutions function through a thorough investigation to bring to justice those responsible in fact, he expressed in a tweet .
Bukele also spoke out on his Twitter account. “It looks like the dying parties have launched their latest plan. What a desperation not to lose their privileges and their corruption. I thought they couldn’t fall lower, but they fell,” he said.
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