Police and military are on the outer perimeter, only policemen will enter pavilions at the time, the Government will not accept blackmail and transfers will continue.
The Defense Minister Luis Hernández, reported that the State does not yet have control of the pavilions of the Litoral Penitentiary and hopes that “in a few days, hopefully they will have control as a State.”
With a thousand troops, Policeman and the Armed Forces (FF. AA.) They control the border, they are abroad, isolating the inmates from the provision of arms, ammunition, drugs and explosives.
Hernández said that with the appropriate intelligence, they will work by pavilion to carry out a search for what exists in the twelve pavilions occupied by about 12,000 prisoners.
The minister said that they will not talk with the leaders of the gangs to enter, but that they will make the progressive use of force to achieve total control to access and carry out the respective searches.
Regulation of the progressive use of force for police officers and prison guides exists in the Penal Code since 2019
“There is the use of forceIf the people who are inside armed make an offensive action against the Police, obviously they will act in self-defense if they are received with firearms. The The military will be the ones to make the siege so that the police can enter and also the support is given with armored vehicles so that they can protect themselves in case there are snipers, because the Police have occupied the upper parts “, said the minister, in interview with the RTU channel.
The Minister did not deny the existence of an official letter sent to the Armed Forces. AA., According to which the National Police warns about the possibility of more riots in prisons of country, sorted by aliases Earn and aliases JR.
Armed Forces confirm that they are on the outer perimeter of the Litoral Penitentiary
“These information arrive, they are analyzed, they are qualified sources, but the armed forces are not necessarily going to be produced at this time. AA. and the Police are in possession throughout the country and these threats are even a kind of psychological warfare trying to threaten the State, but the State is willing to act. That (the transfer of the gang leaders) is going to be done, the State cannot be subjected to blackmail”Hernández said.
The minister confirmed that the origin of this escalation of violence in prisons is the drug trafficking and organized crime, with gang struggles in prisons and also in the streets with micro-trafficking. (I)
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