According to the prosecutor’s office, the aggression was the result of discussions between the attackers and the militants of the left party.
The Attorney General’s office presented videos and photos proving that the chief of security for the Secretary of Health, Francisco Alabí, and two employees of the aforementioned ministry were the ones who attacked the caravan of FMLN militants, with the rest of two dead and three injured.
Two of the prosecutors for attacking FMLN militants were brought before the 10th court of Paz, in San Salvador, on Feb. 3. The third alleged person has been hospitalized in Rosales.
“What we cannot deny is the direct participation of these three people in the murders of Ms Gloria Rogel and Mr Juan de Dios Tejada, which is why the petition has been made,” said Attorney General Raúl Melara.
Diego Francisco Alvarado Peña, Chief of Security for the Secretary of Health, Francisco Alabí; the watchdog of the aforementioned ministry, Roberto Carlos Coto de Paz and his motorist, Héctor de Jesús Castaneda, were charged with the murders of Gloria Rogel de López and Juan de Dios Tejada Portillo before the Tenth Peace Court of San Salvador yesterday; ex-fighters and militants of the FMLN party.
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Only Alvarado Peña was not taken to court for being injured in the incident, but the prosecution still does not know under what circumstances he was injured.
They will also be charged with attempted manslaughter of two other members of the aforementioned political party and who have been provisionally acquitted by the prosecutor’s office of police allegations that they injured Alvarado Peña.
Melara said these people had not been provisionally determined to have injured the PPI agent. The two are admitted to a hospital.
San Salvador’s head of the prosecution service Santiago Hernández said there are four moments in the videos and photos shown to the press yesterday. In one sequence, the blue vehicle in which the defendants were driving is seen as they contested the road with the driver of the white truck in which the militants of the FMLN party were traveling.
Another of the moments shown is the obstruction from the blue car to the truck. It is later noted that three individuals are getting out of the blue car. You can immediately see when the truck driver reverses as if he wants to avoid the subjects.
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In the fourth series, a person sitting in the white pick-up is observed getting out and taking a “peculiar” position for it.
Two of the prosecutors for attacking FMLN militants were brought before the 10th court of Paz, in San Salvador, on Feb. 3. The third alleged person has been hospitalized in Rosales.
The video shows when two people who are supposed to attack the occupants of the truck return to the blue car and then leave.
Seconds later you can see when the white truck is already passing with the injured.
Alvarado Peña and Coto de Paz are the first to get out of the blue car and head towards the FMLN militants.
“We see here the movement of Diego Francisco to where the victims are, with the firearm already in his hands ready to take a violent action,” said prosecutor Hernández.
The photos show when two of the three people return to the blue vehicle, but none of them are injured.
At the moment, the tax authorities have not been able to determine how he may have been injured. “People who return to the car return to the Ministry of Health and leave it in the parking lot. I could not speculate that he (Alvarado) inflicted that shot himself, it will be necessary to analyze the weapons found and every projectile withdrawn from him. I’m afraid to say it, ”said Melara.
President Nayib Bukele wrote a tweet assuring the police had a video of an FMLN militant shooting Alvarado Peña.
Prosecutor Melara has been asked whether that video that the police claims is part of the evidence in the possession of the prosecutor’s office. Melara replied that for now the videos of the companies near the scene have been analyzed, but that other videos from the surveillance cameras in the area should be analyzed.
“It could be that video showing someone getting off the picketing and taking an apparent shooting position that has been discussed with the police and the prosecution service and it has not been possible to determine whether he actually has from that location shot. That’s why it’s important to still see the videos that are still being analyzed in order to get a better detail on them, ”said Melara.
The blue vehicle in which the attackers drove belongs to PPI agent Alvarado Peña and in which heroin residues have been found.
Currently, a shotgun and a 9mm pistol have been confiscated from the Ministry of Health.