Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
Public Ministry spokesman Yuri Mora said today that the testimony of Edgar José Velásquez, a friend of Keyla Martínez, The nurse killed in a police cell of Hope, and who was detained at the same station tonight, “do not have to modify the investigation” of the security and justice bodies around the resounding case.
The death of the college student has caused outrage in the national population and international community. While in police custody Sunday in a cell at the central-western city police station, he died of mechanical suffocation, as indicated by the Forensic Medicine autopsy.
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Protests and a gale of demonstrations have focused attention on the possible involvement of police officers in the incident. All items assigned to this station were moved to Tegucigalpa and Peace, Which has generated critics and questionings that indicate encumbrimiento of high hierarchs of the institution.
Martinez, de 26 years of age, was that night next to doctor Edgar Jose Velasquez, who also was stopped and transferred by agents of National Police towards the putting of the city. In the last hours, and after the silence of this one from the death of Martinez, it appeared before mass media.
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“She said she wanted to hang out with her sweater,” Velasquez told CNN. However, the Public Ministry, the investigative body of the case, has reiterated that these statements do not modify at all the processes of the investigation of the case carried out by the Technical Agency for Criminal Investigation, ATIC, in the sky where it was raise death, police station and other allusive elements.
“We are investigating through statements, testimonies, videos on cell phones and cameras from the police station, which had them,” Mora explains. In addition, the official detailed that, at the time of the events, the station was provided by women officers of the National Police, and not just men, as initially transpired.
“The preliminary report of the Forensic Autopsy will not change. The death was due to mechanical suffocation,” Mora concluded. Forensic experts point out that there is no more accurate version than that of a homicide.
Police officers who complied with shifts at the police station have been called to testify and present physical and psychological examinations and studies. The investigation seeks to clarify the mysterious death of Martinez, although so far, despite having become one of the most mediated cases of suspected crime in Honduras, no people have been arrested.