Ecuadorian police have released details of the assassination of the presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio that was recorded last Wednesday, August 9, at the exit of an election rally of his campaign in Quito.
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Ecuadorian authorities have reported the presence of an alleged suspect armed group which consisted of more than seven people equipped with short and long arms and explosives who carried out the attack presidential candidatelya and his security team consisting of active duty police officers.
At the center of the attack were three police officers injured with a firearm and the assassin was captured, as well as six involved in this incident, in less than three hours, according to the Ecuadorian police.
Similarly, in the same communiqué, the authorities announced that as part of the researchhas been an FBI team in the city of Quito since Saturday, after a request for cooperation from the president of Ecuador.
(You may be interested: Fernando Villavicencio’s wife accuses the state and Correísmo of the murder)
“The Institutional Command ordered a technical report to be prepared on the procedures for protecting the Presidential candidateas well as one research internal administrative,” reads the document issued by the Police of said country.
At the same time, they emphasized the commitment of the institution to clarify the facts with the support of the Public Ministry of Justice “so that the intellectual actors are prosecuted.”
“The National Police certainly rejects that political actors draw conclusions about the facts being investigated by the Public Ministry of Justiceor, based solely on information circulating on social networks or accounts of unofficial sources, expressing opinions without technical support and used for political purposes,” the statement concluded.
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Source: El heraldo
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