On one of the main roads Guayaquil was murdered on prosecutor Cesar Suarezwho had done research into thearmed attack on TC Television channel on January 9, in the context of the wave of violence Ecuador.
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The officer was shot in his vehicle – which was hit at least nine times – while en route to a call. Brandweerlaan after leaving his office. Suárez was the representative of the Office of the State Attorney General from that country to address the case of the hooded men who entered the channel’s facilities and threatened to kill the journalists who were on set.
According to the media outlet El Universo, a few days ago the bailiff had even interrogated the thirteen prisoners of the criminal gang Tiguerones, who were accused of being behind the attack on the canal.
César Suárez was attached to the National Specialized Investigation Unit against Transnational Organized Crime (Unidot), which was created on January 9 to investigate eight terrorist groups that threatened Guayaquil on that date.
A total of 1,975 people have been arrested Ecuadoror during the first eight days after the government’s declaration of a “internal armed conflict” against organized crime, with 158 arrested for alleged crimes terrorism.
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The figure stems from a report by the Government of Ecuador published this Wednesday on the police and military operations carried out on the national territory in this new scenario, in which 22 organized crime gangs are considered terrorist groups and belligerent non-state actors.
Ecuadorian authorities also claim that between January 9 and 17, they murdered five alleged members of these gangs now classified as terrorists, while two police officers were killed and another eleven released after several kidnappings apparently carried out by this mafia.
During that period, 728 firearms, 736 bladed weapons, 41 gun feeders, almost 21,200 bullets and 521 explosives were seized.
Source: El heraldo

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