The famous Francesco Carrara, a distinguished criminologist of the classical school, said that the commission of a crime is “the criminal’s journey towards breaking the law”.

The Manta Prosecutor’s Office closed its doors and sent employees to work remotely after the attack

The ironies of life: so many years after Carrara, in order to commit repeated crimes in Ecuador, it is not necessary to move anywhere, because from places where mobile phones are prohibited, the execution of murderers is often ordered through mobile phones, acts of revenge, threats, etc. The ecstasy of irony is that the introduction of mobile phones to those places, a crime punishable by “prison”, that is, with the possibility of ending up in the same place.

This tragedy of committing crimes through phone deals is especially painful when children, pregnant women or public servants fighting for justice are killed. It seems to me that it was yesterday that, as director of the master’s degree, I took over the thesis of the prosecutor César Suárez, who was killed this month, together with the support court.

We invite the international community to help us with equipment and technical assistance.

The five master’s degrees he held and his humble origins show a man of struggle, and his work shows a fighter for criminal justice.

It is now known that he was a very solidary being. It is a death that hurts. He was in charge of dangerous investigations.

The departure of regular judges from the State Court raises doubts about who will take over their cases

One of the messages that comes directly to us is that most prosecutors are unprotected, unfairly unprotected.

If the leaders of the investigation and criminal proceedings are not materially protected by the state, what will happen to ordinary citizens, ordinary passers-by on the streets?

Prosecutor César Suárez, killed in Los Ceibos, investigated the armed attack on TC Televisión

Firefighter Avenue is in mourning: a few days ago two people died from stray bullets, and a few days later it witnessed the murder of prosecutor Suárez. Last year, on the same road, a video showed how one attacker (technically an “alleged”) told another in relation to a citizen who did not give him what he wanted: “Kill him.” Namely, the life of that being and his wife depended on the criminal’s courage to resist.

In short, we live daily amidst the risk of vile death. Criminals know that we are completely helpless and do what they want with complete peace.

Not one more

We invite the international community to help us with equipment and technical assistance. Our public finances – they are public – are crying, and yet there are some who believe that “sovereignty” is affected by international assistance in matters of security. Former President José María Velasco Ibarra said that true sovereignty “consists in making law effective.”

Justice cannot deviate from its noble path. Judges and prosecutors must be especially protected. We cannot require them to be willing to die for their work.

Risks in the middle of an armed conflict

The state is especially indebted to them. In these times, several judges and prosecutors are victims of threats and have to deal with fear, which is unfair to the core.

The state must direct subsidies to free up funds for our defense. It’s fair. (OR)