Indignation and uncertainty awakens in the population of the Tegucigalpa a new violent event that occurred this Thursday, July 14, 2022, in the early morning hours, where a group of young people was approached by criminals at the exit of a night entertainment establishment, and following making them get out of several vehicles, They fired several shots at them that ended their lives..
The event, which occurred in the capital of Honduras, had a special deployment by the media, while Among the victims of the massacre, there is a 23-year-old man, identified as Sair Lobo Bonillawho was the son of the former president of Honduras Porfirio Lobo Sosawho following being informed of what happened, went to the place to find out what happened, and in the midst of the mourning that afflicts his family, deliver statements to the press.
In the midst of his pain, President Lobo affirmed that he had no knowledge of who might be behind the crime once morest his son and some other young people, raising a special request to the authorities so that they spare no effort in the investigation to clarify what happened. , in addition to put an end to the wave of violence that is sweeping his country.
In addition to Said Lobo, in the list of young people killed in this bloody massacre, there is also a nephew of a high military command of that country, more precisely the general, in good retirement, Romeo Vasques Velazquez who once served as head of the Honduran Armed Forces, and who was in active service during June 2009, the date on which the then president of that country was overthrown, through a coup d’état, Manuel Zelayahusband of the current president of that country, Xiomara Castro.
In statements delivered to the local media, the retired soldier lamented what had happened, and the death of his nephew, calling on the authorities to ‘give an answer to the families of the victims’, with which he advocated a judicious investigation that might clarify what happened, and if the crime was a selective act, or if the death of the young people was a criminal act motivated by other situations.
In that same sense, the retired soldier called on the authorities to spare no effort to achieve the capture of those responsible for the event that mourns Tegucigalpa.
In his statements, retired general Romeo Vásquez also lamented that “crime is beating state institutions.”
From the authorities of that country, a special operation was deployed to investigate the crime, which in addition to the relatives of Lobo and Vásquez, left two other victims.
According to preliminary versions provided by the Police to local media, the incident occurred following unknown persons intercepted several vehicles in the early morning hoursminutes following its occupants conversed in a night entertainment center, forcing them to get out of the vehicle, to later gun them down.
The Honduran National Police announced the formation of a special team that will be assigned to the investigation, and whose mission is to identify and capture those responsible.
After knowing the news of what happened, through social networks, the president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro spoke out to reject the violent acts, and extend a greeting of condolences to former President Porfirio ‘Pepe’ Lobo for the irreparable loss of one of their children.
“Solidarity with former President Porfirio Lobo, Rosita, and relatives of vilely murdered young people,” Castro trilled, in a message in which he also expressed his rejection of what he called “death squads that have been operating for years with impunity in Honduras.”
In her message, the president also encouraged the Secretary of Security and the Honduran National Police to ‘not rest’ until they achieve the disintegration of criminal gangs responsible for this vile action that mourns that country.
Like his wife, former President Zelaya also spoke through his Twitter account.
Security cameras captured the act of criminals
So far this day, and in the framework of the investigations carried out by the authorities to clarify the crime, some images of the security cameras of the place, in which it is possible to appreciate the moments in which a group of criminals arrived at the place, uniformed, heavily armed and aboard several vehicles, who went directly towards a truck that left a parking lot, to make their victims, who, before being riddled, were arranged, as a wall, once morest one of the sides of the parking lot.
In recent days, the General Directorate of the Honduran Police proposed “the creation of the Anti-mara, Gang and Organized Crime Police Directorate, to replace the National Anti-mara and Gang Force (FNAP)”.
