The crime against José Mauricio Salazar, occurred in 2017 in Zaragoza. An agent of the Operational Tactics Section (STO) was sentenced in 2018 to 20 years in prison.
The director of the National Civil Police (PNC), Mauricio Arriaza Noies, expressed public apologies to the family of José Mauricio Salazar, 38, murdered by a police corporation agent on April 24, 2017, in Zaragoza, Department of Liberty.
Salazar was deaf-mute and at the time was pointed out as a brigand who, carrying a rifle, had confronted the police at a distance of only five meters, while patrolling the area of the El Saite II colony in Zaragoza.
But investigations revealed that on the day of the crime, the victim was carrying a drill because he was taking it to his father. The police opened fire on Josep, then lied saying that he was going to attack them and so they shot him.
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To substantiate his lie, officers altered the scene, disappeared the drill and placed a firearm near the corpse, however, ballistic evidence ruled out that Joseph had used the weapon (a revolver). ), as established at trial.
Despite the manner in which the crime was committed and the alteration of the scene by the police, by Arriaza Girls, this was a “mistake” within police procedure.
“As general director of the @ PNCSV, I want to apologize publicly and directly to the family, because they were extremely harmed by this mistake made in 2017,” Arriaza Girls said yesterday in a public event held at the La Libertad Center Sud Delegation in Santa Tecla, where he was accompanied by the head of this delegation, Andrés Ramírez.
The police director also apologized because at the time, a police officer claimed the victim belonged to gangs. “In the face of this assertion that was made at that time, I strongly deny that the said person belonged to gangs,” he clarified.
Arriaza recalled that “the person responsible for this error has already been prosecuted and convicted of the crime of aggravated homicide,” referring to the sentence against José Francisco Ramírez Rodríguez in a lawsuit in 2018, in which a sentence of 20 years in prison.
Ramírez Rodríguez was an agent of the Operational Tactical Section (STO). In this process another defendant was acquitted.
IDHUCA lawyer questions no police officer
Speaking to Arriaza Noies, IDHUCA lawyer Arnau Baulenas said on his Twitter account: “It was not a police procedure! It was a MURDER. Today it turns out that killing humble people is part of the job of the police? Shame on the headline. By the way, the current @Director_PNC was the Deputy Director of Government Specialists last year.
But his reaction went further. Faced with the statements of the police chief that “as @PNCSV we have always shown full willingness to cooperate with the competent authorities to deduce responsibilities, especially when a police officer is involved,” the IDHUCA lawyer said that this is a lie .
“Lie @Director_PNC! The PNC covered up the fact and altered the crime scene to try to justify a confrontation. 4 years later in fact they apologize. In other cases, such as Carla Ayala, they do not want to pay compensation for to the children. You do not cooperate! “, questioned the lawyer.