Police arrested two men on Thursday suspected of murdering an anti-mafia prosecutor in Guayaquil. A crime which shows that the government is still far from having restored order in the country.
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The police first identified the taxi driver who was driving the vehicle in which the hitmen were traveling. After being arrested, the suspect took them to a hotel where one of the alleged assassins was staying, then searched a house, where she seized a machine gun and two revolvers. The vehicle used in the attack was found completely burned, reports our correspondent in Quito, Eric Samson.
Two to three members of the commando are still free. According to the prosecution, the hitmen were part of the gang of Chone Killersone of the most active gangs currently against the police with the Tiguerones And Los Lobos.
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Investigators are looking to see if the assassinated prosecutor César Suarez was not trapped by a phone call that forced him to leave his home without his usual escort when he was supposed to be working from home. Attorney General Diana Salazar has requested that protection of her staff be strengthened and that court hearings now be conducted virtually.
This 42-year-old woman is at the origin of the vast Metastasis operation which led in December to the arrest of around thirty people, including judges and prosecutors, suspected of being involved in organized crime linked to drug trafficking. . In 2020, a year after becoming the country’s first black attorney general, Diana Salazar sued the popular former president for corruption Rafael Correa (2007-2017).
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Thursday morning, 1,500 police and soldiers intervened again in the regional prison of Guayaquil, searching the cells of the detainees gathered in the patios, proof that they do not yet really have control and that the gangs have not surrendered. weapons in Ecuador.