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The emergency declaration for the Police and Armed Forces to take control of the streets of Esmeraldas is the request of the mayor of that city, Lucía Sosa, to reduce the rates of violence in some neighborhoods of the city.
The request was presented by the official at the ordinary session of the provincial Emergency Operations Committee (COE), chaired by Governor Tania Obando, on Tuesday the 19th.
“We call on the Ministry of Government to take all the measures and the application of the law, to combat the acts of violence that are raging in this land of kind people who today demand peace,” emphasized the mayor, who He replied to his request in a video posted on social networks.
Concern about criminal acts wreaks havoc on the economy of entrepreneurs and merchants, who are trying to reactivate after the COVID-19 pandemic, Sosa said, and also asked that 400 more police officers, patrol cars and motorcycles be assigned to the district of emeralds.
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In turn, the Municipality delivered in agreement the 50 video surveillance cameras of the Smart City project. These equipments are connected to the ECU911.
The National Police and citizen sectors insist on the validity of the municipal ordinance and its regulations that regulate that a single person is mobilized on each motorcycle. “95% of violent deaths and robberies are committed in this type of vehicle in the Esmeraldeña capital,” said Javier Buitrón, police chief of Subzone 8, in recent days.
The robbery of a local by four subjects on two motorcycles was recorded by video cameras of the establishment, on Jaime Hurtado streets, in the Codesa neighborhood, last Tuesday.
Meanwhile, the mayor revealed that 135 murders have been recorded in the province of Esmeraldas so far this year.
For this reason, he demanded government attention and urged families and authorities to join forces against crimes.
On their side, residents of various sectors reported gun battles in the neighborhoods of Las Malvinas, Santa Marta, Puerto Limón, Isla Piedad, on the banks of the Esmeraldas River, around midnight the previous Tuesday.
“Detonations are heard, apparently from high-range weapons,” wrote users who uploaded videos to their social networks.
Pablo Obando, police chief of the Esmeraldas district, said that these confrontations take place after patrols in these outlying neighborhoods.
More violent deaths in the green province
Two men were murdered hit-man style in the cantons of Esmeraldas and San Lorenzo.
In the first case, the attack occurred on Piedrahíta streets between Bolívar and Sucre, around 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday the 20th.
It was learned that the victim lived in a neighborhood on the banks of the Esmeraldas River.
A vehicle that was parked where the merchant died received several bullet wounds that affected the windows on the sides.
While in San Lorenzo, on the northern border, a man was found dead with gunshot wounds inside a red vehicle.
For now, the authorities continue the investigations to establish the causes of these two new selective assassinations. Since last Sunday, there are already seven victims of this kind of incident.
The morning of the previous Sunday, seven members of a family died in another violent event. Six died as a result of the impact of bullets; while a 2-year-old minor, due to suffocation, after the bullet-ridden body of his mother pinned him to the ground. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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