San Salvador, El Salvador.
The director of the National Civil Police (PNC) of El Salvador apologized this Friday for the murder by “mistake” of Jose Mauricio Salazar, a person with a hearing impairment who died at the hands of officers in 2017, in a town southwest of San Salvador.
“As the PNC’s general manager, I would like to apologize for the matter publicly and directly to the family as they suffered great damage from that mistake made in 2017,” police chief Mauricio Arriaza said in the statement. public. statement. to comply with a court resolution.
On April 24, 2017 in Zaragoza, La Libertad, 15 km southwest of San Salvador, “an unfortunate event occurred due to the death of the person José Mauricio Salazar during a police procedure,” recalls the PNC director.
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According to Arriaza, a PNC official assured the incident that the victim belonged to “criminal groups” (gangs). “Given that allegation made at the time, I strongly deny that the person mentioned above belonged to gangs,” Arriaza clarified.
The person responsible for “this error has already been prosecuted and convicted of the crime of aggravated murder,” Arriaza stressed.
After hearing the public apology from the security agency, Arnau Baulenas, the attorney for the Central American University Human Rights Institute (UCA), said that “the PNC covered up the incident and changed the crime scene to justify a confrontation.” on Twitter.