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“I’m going to clarify that everything I’m going to talk about now is in all my statements, from Sunday to today, the last contact I had with the Criminal Investigation BureauDr. Edgar José Velásquez Orellana told the program Thursday evening Conclusions from CNN. Velásquez is a star witness in the cause of Keyla Martinez, young man who died for it mechanical suffocation According to him Prosecution
“On Saturday, February 6, we were intercepted by two police patrols around nine in the morning. They signal me to stop. I pay attention. They ask for my documents. I give my medical card and my driver’s license and the documents of the car I am driving ”.
After reviewing the papers, they asked him if he knew there was a curfew, according to the doctor’s report. “I answered yes and that I was already going home. The officer in charge told me a few words that I actually ignored. I have not paid any attention to it. And he asked if you let me talk to myself. He immediately ordered us to get out of the car. “
According to the doctor, after they got out of the car, the officers opened the four doors of the car and also the trunk. “I asked them why they opened my car for me. I don’t bring anything. I do nothing. Why did they do that? The officer ordered my handcuff. And that kind of annoyed me because they treated me in such a way that I’ve never had an experience like this before. I asked them why they did that. I am not a criminal ”.
He told me what he believed in me, who I was to make those kinds of comments. He ordered me and Keyla to be taken to the bucket of the police patrol, and he ordered an officer to take my car away for the mail
‘It was about half past ten. They just fascinated me. I still told them, we’re in uniform. We have to take care of ourselves. You take care of me outside. I will take care of them the day they arrive at a hospital. They shouldn’t be doing things like this. We do nothing to be treated this way. “
“I remember telling them they were hurting me, so they asked me if someone hit me, I said no, but the handcuffs will bruise my hands when they take them off.”
“Keyla, all the way in the car pan, she tried to calm me down, she told me, Edgar, doctor, calm down, don’t argue with them, they bother you. Listen to me. She tried to calm me down throughout the course we joined the police station
Once they entered the police station, the doctor said they had been taken to a person to have their personal information recorded. “We had three or four people then. The data comes from Keyla by female police officers and from me by male officers. I want to explain that they never let me put on my mask when they got out of the vehicle and they didn’t remove the handcuffs. They took my personal belongings with them in the data collection ”.
He then adds that the officers took him out and made him identify his car. And he adds that he insisted they didn’t, that he wasn’t a criminal. “They told me that university passed through you and not you through the university. The moment I signed the cards, they took my handcuffs off. After collecting Keyla’s data, the police women took her to her cell. ‘
Then they brought it to him. They got adjacent cells. In the first was Keyla. “She was standing, held by the bars, she was alone, she was crying. And he said she hadn’t done anything. Why did they lock her up? Throw it out. Then they put me in it cell
The doctor stated that in the cell There were ten people who got it. “Before you cell I have asked three times if I can call. After filling in my details, they read me my rights. One of them said he was entitled to a call. I asked them and they wouldn’t allow me. “
“I had never had such an experience. One when entering the cell don’t know what to find. The people who were with me tragic night they were humble, hardworking. People who got out of their jobs after nine and who were taken to jail for being out of curfew ”.
Edgar Velasquez He claims that the cells of both could be heard, but not seen. And that he encouraged her by telling her that they would be out in the morning and that what happened would be just an anecdote to laugh with friends, but that she was crying, and the others who were with him in the cell they tried to encourage him.
He adds that after about 25 minutes, she takes him out of the cell and they took a picture of him. After this, he returned to cell and then Keyla asked to go to the bathroom and was taken by a policewoman. “She cried and asked to be taken out.”
“I asked her to sing for me, she sang very well. We tried to calm her down and talk. Suddenly she said I wanted to die. I’m going to hang out with my sweater. I told him not to say that. Words have power. Let’s get out of here, calm down. Don’t say such things. About three or five minutes after he said that, he stopped answering us. Then we started shouting. In about ten minutes, a police officer arrived with a flashlight and lit the cell van Keyla and quickly went back bringing four people. They opened it cell Keyla and they carried her out by weight, one person on each limb. Keyla was unconscious. I asked if they could let me take her vital signs, that I was a doctor, that they let me check on her, they ignored me, they didn’t listen to me and they left ”.
Then someone came back and took a picture and left. I thought Keyla had been taken to a hospital and that she was in a better place than us. I could never have imagined a tragedy. They took her and at six in the morning the deputy commander became responsible for the police station and he asked who the doctor was, I identified and asked if I happened to have the ID card, I answered yes and why he wanted it, he said he had to make a statement. I asked, and she told me her friend is dead. I cannot explain what it feels like at the time. “
Edgar Velasquez He concluded by saying that she will get him out at seven in the morning cell and they told him he was already free. Later he asked for a phone call and spoke to his father to pick him up. A short video, in which the doctor and Keyla were arrested, went viral in recent hours.
“Those responsible must go to prison”: irma lópez, legal representative
The legal representatives of the family of Keyla Martinez They ask that the investigation be properly conducted so that the culprits are imprisoned.
Irma Lopez, legal representative of the Rodríguez family, stated that “in the hands of the police they took her life when they took her to the emergency room of the hospital, she no longer had vital signs, she had been blows to her body, she already strangled, the police and he had killed. ”López said that a few hours after the event, the next of kin arrived at the police station to ask for Keyla’s personal belongings, but that the headquarters was already protected with a large number of uniformed men.
“The parquet Prosecution Shift, at the right time it didn’t keep the crime scene going, which in that case was the police station, the prosecutor had to act from the moment the doctors told him the condition of the body, ”said the forensic defense.
The lawyer stated that thanks to God and the pressure of the people of Intibucá, the Prosecution has assigned two prosecutors with extensive experience in human rights violations.
“ We are going to get to the last elements of the investigation, these police officers are required and so it should be with all those who were on duty that night, they should be given scientific tests, a broad investigation, not conducted with a demand for prosecution so that they later dictate a dismissal by the courts, we want a formal charge ”.
López assured that they will take those responsible to prison, they are not blaming the entire national police, for which they are asking for the case to be individualized.
Norma Rodriguez, mother of Keyla MartinezHe said his daughter provided health services to many families in the city.
“She respected the authorities and it is incredible how she ended up dead in the hands of those who should protect her, but her death will not go unpunished, we will ask for help from international organizations and Human Rights, my daughter’s death must set a precedent ”.