The authorities accepted that the agglomerations registered in the avenues Shyris and United Nations took them “by surprise”
Authorities of the National Police, Secretariat of Security, Metropolitan Control and Traffic Agencies, among others, presented the results of the operations carried out by the Quito festivals. Between these, 20 people were arrested for the excesses registered in the commercial area of the city.
The press conference that took place in the crisis room of the metropolitan COE, at the ECU911 facilities, was chaired by Daniela Balarezo, Secretary of Security, who said that in general lines have positive results for the number of events carried out by the Municipality or private that did not present news.
On the excesses and agglomeration of people registered in the avenues Shyris and United Nations, accepted these events clouded the festivities and that it concentrated around 20,000 people.
“This was due to several factors, people left their offices with alcoholic consumption at four or five in the afternoon and they also got off with alcohol consumption of the chivas that came to the United Nations (avenue), then all the people arrived at this place already with alcohol consumption (…) on Saturday we reinforce the fencing who was laid down on Friday, we have agents who were thrown boiling water from the cinnamon and that is not seen in the videos of social networks ”, he emphasized.
From the secretariat, he commented that they deterred 236 crowds, apprehended two alleged criminals, reported four clandestine parties and they withdrew 1,011 libadores.
The DMQ police commander, Cesar Zapata reported that more than 4,000 police officers were ready for the operations. He stressed that from November 26 to December 6 there has been a 64% decrease in violent deaths, The previous year there were 11 deaths in this period and now they had 4. This, taking into account that in the previous year there was a ban on events due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Regarding the excesses, he commented that they carried out sweeping operations, “the last operation was at 04:30 removing the last few people who were under the influence of alcohol, including we had to take some citizens, in the patrol cars, to locate them in their homes “, Zapata said.
Due to the alteration of public order due to the fights over the consumption of liquor, he pointed out that 11,379 joint operations were carried out with the Armed Forces and other entities. Of these operations, 28,349 citizens licking in public space were removed of the place, they seized 465 knives, 13 firearms, 11 vehicles and 11 motorcycles reported stolen were recovered, and 193 people were arrested.
Of this group of detainees, he pointed out that 20 were for contraventions, that is, for fights and public scandals. 63 were for capture and coercion tickets, 27 for robbery of people, 23 for domestic violence, 4 for theft from cars, 4 for theft from economic units, 3 for theft from motorcycles, 8 for substances subject to control, 2 for theft from homes, among other reasons.
About a video that went viral on social networks of a fight on the boulevard of United Nations Avenue, in which one individual attacked another with a motorcycle helmet and presumably would have died. César Zapata said that until yesterday there was no person who died for these reasons, according to city hospitals.
What he did emphasize is that more than 20 policemen had minor injuries in the work to dissuade people.
Jaime Villacreses, Supervisor of the Metropolitan Control Agency (AMC) pointed out that they carried out 155 operations and issued 85 acts of initiation of sanction. He also reported that 10 agents were attacked.
“Although there was no event planned on the avenue of the Shyris, the metal fence was placed and thrown to the ground, we carried out 12 retentions of kitchens, gas cylinders and about 200 bottles of liquor. From the AMC we had 10 officials attacked in the hands, precisely that they they watered the liquor and hot water, some were also tried to throw in the face. When we participate with the National Police there was a rain of bottles that he attacked municipal officials and police ”, he denounced.
When asked by the press about the detainees and those punished in these attacks, Villacreses replied that There were 8 penalties for the consumption of alcoholic beverages and the retention of 200 bottles of liquor.
Ramiro Aldás, director of the Metropolitan Agents Corps said that with “such agglomeration and such a number of non-regularized merchants, it is difficult to apprehend people ”.
What is done is to withdraw the citizens, “because in an attack, people run and in (the park) La Carolina, where they can hide it is difficult to identify them “Aldás added. In addition, he commented that people supported non-regularized vendors and attacked agents.
Zapata, for his part, said that 20 people were arrested, “Understand that in that tumult of people they were attacked and the person who attacked them was not identified, We are reviewing the videos of those scenes to be able to file the corresponding complaints and that this does not go unpunished, because among 20,000 people who are in the place, very difficult to identify the person who throws a bottle or he attacks and runs and is covered by the crowd of people “he added.
Villacreses, also explained that From the legal point of view, they are limited to the presentation of evidence. “For example, in a fist (to an agent) and there is no bleeding or something like that, if the police collaborate with us by arresting the person and he is taken to flagrante delicto,” the judge is going to say, what is the proof of the assault? many of these events happen unexpectedly, it is not that we are always recording and we have the proof for that person to be sentenced ”, he argued.
The director of the Metropolitan Transit Agency (AMT) Jaime Vaca He reported that two officers were wounded, “one had his head fractured and the other his hand, two motorcycles and two patrol cars were also destroyed ”, he extended.
The journalists asked the director of the AMT about the reasons for not penalizing the large number of drivers that left Shyris avenue low consumption of alcoholic beverages.
Before this he replied, “the truth that We were all taken by surprise by the situation on Friday, obviously due to the large accumulation of people who concentrated on Shyris Avenue, due to those circumstances we have 19 goats who were punished and 32 drivers apprehended, that’s the result ”.
According to information from the AMT, 2,080 officials were present at the 144 operational controls carried out. (I)
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