“The police officers beat him to death and now they are denying things,” he said with tears in his eyes. Yadeline Castro, sister of Luis Eduardo Castro Salcedo, Aged 38, died under circumstances subject to investigation by authorities after being involved in a police proceeding in the borough at noon on Tuesday, April 11 Candelaria, in the Atlantic Ocean.
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“They want to treat him like a criminal, now that they say he injured himself, many people in the city realized how they treated him. My brother went to cut wood and they told me that the uniformed men surrounded him, there were only four of them. When they went to tell my mother, they had already beaten him enough, she managed to see one of them hit him on the head with a helmet, she begged them to stop beating, but they didn’t care. They killed him like he was an animal.”said the relative of the deceased today.
The woman’s story tells that Castro Salcedo was apparently tortured: “They threw water at him and placed a taser on him. They took him to Manatí Hospital and they did it because they knew what would come if they took him to Candelaria Medical Center. There’s a video of him being taken out of the police car like an animal, my brother was already dead”.
One of the versions in the case is that Luis Eduardo was allegedly accused of committing a robbery on Monday, which is why the police were looking for him. On this, the man’s sister stated that “he wasn’t messing with anyone, he was working. We don’t know why they captured him. The theft is a liethe same police officers told my mother that they were confused because it was another boy who committed the theft.”
Yadelin Castro confirmed that her relative “was on drugs, but she didn’t mess with anyone, she didn’t steal anything from anyone, she preferred to ask. We ask the authorities for justice, that the who has caused us this great harm, pays.”
Source: El heraldo

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