2023-09-29 00:17:35
A member of the Navy of Paraguay He was arrested in the Paraná River after being injured by a patrol from the Naval Prefecture. According to the Argentine authorities, the man would have been guarding a boat dedicated to fuel smuggling from Argentina.
The incident occurred in a known area like Colonia San Albertonear the city of Puerto Rico, in Misiones.
The soldier was a minor injury to one of his hands after the Prefecture fired shots to force him to stop the speed of the boat in which he was traveling with two other people, including a fourteen-year-old teenager.
The Paraguayan Navy gave a different version of the incident. They pointed out that a preliminary report from the Itapúa Naval Area ““relates about an event that involves a staff from Puerto Triunfo, who was carrying out a patrol aboard one of the vessels used for intelligence tasks.” and that in those circumstances “two people, who were apparently fishing in the area aboard a precarious boat, asked the staff for help because the canoe in which they were was taking in water and were at risk of sinking”.
The report distributed to the media details that “the Puerto Triunfo staff immediately responded to the compatriots’ request for help, at which time the Argentine Naval Prefecture, from long distance He proceeded to shoot with rubber pellets, Second non-commissioned officer Alberto Martin Rojas Cabrera was injured in the hand.” And they recognized that ““The Argentine Prefecture carried out the arrest of our staff and the two people already in the jurisdictional waters of Argentina.”.
The incident stemmed from the opening of a summary in Paraguayan territory and the consul of the neighboring country in Posadas, Rolando Goiburú, intervened. This Thursday the three Paraguayans were released and expelled from the country.
A Paraguayan sailor was shot: the version of the Argentine Prefecture
From the Prefecture they said that the intervention occurred when a river patrol of the force detected a smuggling maneuver involving two vessels. The force confirmed that one of the boats was transporting a large number of drums inside, possibly with Argentine fuel, and was guarded by a second one.
They stated that the prefects gave the word of arrest but the smugglers ignored them and tried to cross the navigation channel, which serves as an international boundary. Under these circumstances, the patrol fired shots with rubber slugs, injuring the helmsman of the boat in which three men were in the hand.
The man identified himself as a member of the Paraguayan Navy and in his possession a firearm for civilian use was found. Together with his companions they were taken to the Argentine coast, where they were detained at the disposal of the Federal Justice, accused of disobedience and smuggling.
This Thursday the three men were released and The country was expelled for having entered in violation of immigration regulations.although they will have to return in the coming weeks to be investigated.
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