2024-01-10 19:10:34
The Ecuadorian Army reported this Wednesday the arrest of two people with weapons, whom it referred to as “terrorists”, on the border with Peru. “Military and police personnel were greeted with rifle shots. As a result of the military operation, two terrorists were apprehended,” he noted on his X account (formerly Twitter).
In the possession of the people they found a rifle, two submachine guns, two pistols, a revolver, six magazines, 66 cartridges, four Motorola radios and 64 doses of marijuana.
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The military operation was carried out by the “Motorized No. 1 Constitución” Infantry Battalion in the city of Huaquillas, “in compliance with Executive Decree 111,” signed on Tuesday by the president of Ecuador, Daniel Noboa.
With said decree, Noboa declared the existence of an “internal armed conflict” in the country and ordered the Armed Forces to carry out military actions to fight once morest organized crime groups.
The decree was signed shortly following hooded armed men, now detained, broke into a television channel in the city of Guayaquil and amid an escalation of tension.
On Tuesday, Ecuador experienced a day of terror with burning cars, attacks with explosives, kidnapping of police officers and with uncertainty regarding the situation of prison guards held by inmates in prisons, regarding whom there was still no official information this Wednesday.
Detained
In a first assessment, the Police reported last night that seventy people have been arrested for the acts of violence in the country.
The State Attorney General’s Office reported this Wednesday that a judge from the province of Loja (south) accepted their request and issued preventive detention once morest six people.
“They were charged for their alleged participation in the crime of terrorism. They would be responsible for the explosions and the burning of vehicles in various parts of the city,” he stated in his account X.
In the same way, he reported that in the province of Tungurahua, he will prosecute 15 people arrested for alleged terrorism because “they had tried to carry out attacks outside” the social rehabilitation center in the city of Ambato, once morest police officers and prison guides.
The Prosecutor’s Office detailed that those arrested had revolvers, submachine guns and ammunition in their possession.
prisoner escape
Ecuador is in a state of emergency for sixty days, which includes a curfew during the night and early morning, due to a series of incidents in prisons, which broke out on Monday, and the “alleged escape” of one of the most dangerous criminals. from the country.
The incidents began at a time when the authorities were deploying operations in a Guayaquil prison in search of José Adolfo Macías, alias “Fito”, leader of “Los Choneros”, considered one of the most dangerous criminal gangs in the country for its alleged links with Mexican cartels, and who apparently escaped over the weekend.
On the other hand, and in the midst of the state of emergency decreed on Monday, Fabricio Colón Pico escaped from prison, captured last week following the State Attorney General, Diana Salazar, mentioned in an alleged plan to attack him. .
Salazar identified Pico as a member of “Los Lobos,” a criminal group that Noboa has identified as “terrorist,” as well as twenty other criminal organizations.
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