San Salvador, El Salvador.
The director of the National Civil Police (PNC) of El Salvador apologized this Friday for the “error” murder of José Maurici Salazar, A person with a hearing disability who died in 2017 at the hands of agents, in a town in southwestern San Salvador.
“As director general of the PNC I want to apologize publicly and directly to the family, because they were extremely harmed by this mistake made in 2017,” said the director of the force, Mauricio Arriaza , in a public statement to comply with a court order.
On April 24, 2017, in Zaragoza, La Libertad, 15 km southwest of San Salvador, “an unfortunate event occurred, because during a police procedure was killed who was alive José Mauricio Salazar,” recalled the director of the PNC.
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In the incident, according to Arriaza, an official of the PNC, said that the victim belonged to “criminal groups” (gangs). “In the face of this assertion that was made at that time, I strongly deny that the said person belonged to gangs,” Arriaza clarified.
The person responsible for “this mistake has already been prosecuted and convicted of the crime of aggravated homicide,” Arriaza stressed.
After hearing the public apology of the security forces, the lawyer of the Institute of Human Rights of the Central American University (UCA), Arnau Baulenas, said that “the PNC covered up the fact and altered the scene of the ‘crime to try to justify a confrontation’, in a message on Twitter.