Director of the SNAI said that the man left the Litoral Penitentiary after the opinion of a judge who accepted a request for him to finish his sentence in a semi-open regime.
Yes is not in the Litoral Penitentiary, where this Wednesday 10 shots were reported inside the pavilions.
Is about Alex Salazar Villamar, who is identified as one of the local leaders of Los Tiguerones, one of the criminal gangs That they dispute control in the country’s prisons as in the Litoral Penitentiary, where the confrontations between them have already exceeded 200 deaths in prison so far this 2021.
The Salazar’s departure of the Litoral Penitentiary confirmed by the director of National Service for Adults Deprived of Liberty and Adolescent Offenders (SNAI), Bolívar Garzón, during a meeting they had in Quito regarding social rehabilitation in Ecuador.
The official said that Salazar’s request to benefit from the prelibertad, and finish the rest of his sentence in a semi-open regime, followed what the law requires and that once the corresponding judge (who heard this case) issued the pre-release ballot, the SNAI complied with the judicial officer’s order that imparts justice.
For this reason, Salazar was released this Wednesday, November 10, as indicated by the SNAI.
The ruling was issued by Judge Oswaldo Dávila, from the Guayaquil Criminal Guarantees Unit, according to the release ticket that also circulates on social media.
The local leader of the Tiguerones he had already served 60% of his sentence inside prison and it is known that He was in command of his group in ward 8 of the Litoral Penitentiary.
Report of the Assembly says that in the last 5 years in Ecuador minimum rules of treatment of prisoners were not respected
Salazar had been sentenced for the crime of reception after he could not justify the belongings with which he was found, it was indicated. At that time, in September 2015, uniformed members of the National Police he was arrested after a complaint of stolen vehicle parts.
At the beginning they gave him four months in prison, but later he was sentenced to an additional 32 months, according to what was known from his records.
Bolívar said that they still do not know if Salazar’s departure from the Penitentiary was related to the detonations and with the act of violence of this Wednesday 10 in that jail.
Only in september of this year, in the Litoral Penitentiary there were 118 deaths in a mutiny and confrontation between rival gangs, among them, that of Los Tiguerones, allied to the Choneros, that They dispute control with the Black Gangsters, Los Lagartos.
Shots in four pavilions of the Litoral Penitentiary
On pavilions 1, 2, 8 and 9 of the Guayas Liberty Deprivation Center No. 1, as the Litoral Penitentiary is known, shots were registered again or detonations, as cataloged by the prison system authorities.
That It happened on the morning of this Wednesday, November 10 and was confirmed by SNAI, who was waiting for the official report of the results of the operations undertaken by the National Police.
There will be an Emergency Intervention Commission in the prisons of Ecuador
In the extraordinary session that the members of the board of directors of the Technical Agency of the National Social Rehabilitation System I know approved creation Of the call Commission for Emergency Intervention in prisons from the country. This after the crisis that the penitentiary system is going through in Ecuador.
Bernarda Ordóñez, Secretary of Human Rights, moved the creation of this commission, which was later approved by the board of the Technical Agency.
In his speech he said that this The commission must be made up of the Security axis and the social axis. (I)
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