Six public buildings and the residence of the Minister of Public Works, Services and Housing, Edgar Montaño, were set on fire this Wednesday by coup groups in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz following the apprehension of Governor Luis Fernando Camacho for the Coup d’état I case.
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According to local media, the attackers set fire to the Departmental Prosecutor’s Office and the Department of Support for the Prevention of Drug Consumption, Control of Illicit Traffic of Controlled Substances and Excess Coca.
For his part, the head of Public Works publicly denounced that “the Cruceñista Youth Union and people related to Camacho burned my home in Santa Cruz, violating the integrity and safety of my family.”
Meanwhile in #SantaCruz Demonstrators set fire to the Departmental Prosecutor’s Office, in protest of the apprehension of the governor of Santa Cruz, Luis Fernando Camacho. It is reported that houses of authorities have been burned to the point of blocking streets and highways. pic.twitter.com/rlKKwKSf9R
— Paola Pérez (@PaolaPteleSUR)
December 28, 2022
In this sense, the wall and the door of the house were set on fire while they also looted the home and attacked the neighbors who tried to control the flames in what constitutes the second attack on his residence following the one reported in 2019.
Similarly, there were attacks once morest the offices of the Civic Registry Service (Sereci) and the National Tax Service (SIN). Likewise, firecrackers were thrown towards the Palace of Justice.
In turn, the Cochabamba Departmental Prosecutor’s Office was set on fire, meanwhile, three women and two men were arrested during the protests that took place in the vicinity at the time of the attack.
Accordingly, the departmental prosecutor of Cochabamba, Nuria Gonzales Romero, specified that “these people were taken to the offices of the Special Force to Fight Crime, the investigation has begun for the destruction and deterioration of State property and public instigation to commit a crime and the case is being processed.”
Meanwhile, the governor of Santa Cruz is detained awaiting the precautionary hearing in which it will be defined whether he executes his defense in freedom or in prison following being accused of acts of violence in 2019 that left more than thirty fatalities.
