Global Courant 2023-05-24 11:20:09
SAINT BARBARA
For three days teams from the National Police they will keep intervened the Ilama Penitentiary Center, Santa Barbarabetter known as The hole.
The operation called Penitentiary Refoundation I began yesterday morning with a deployment of some 2,000 agents from different units, but until late at night the authorities had not reported the confiscation of firearms, despite members of the Gang 18 and the Mara Salvatrucha-13 they have engaged in heavy firefights in recent months.
Operation
The agents assigned to the mission met at 4:00 in the morning yesterday at the Santa Barbara Police Stationwhere three commissioners of the Policeas those in charge of the operation, gave instructions for the entrance of each of the groups to the modules of the prison compound.
At 6:00 am, the armed police contingent arrived at The hole in trucks, buses and patrols with the aim of taking control of the prison.
At exactly 6:36 am, the armed agents began to enter the prison facilities without registering a reaction from the inmates: there were no riots or shots.
Little by little, the groups of troops were entering the premises while fear reigned in the surroundings before the hypothetical reaction of the prisoners, since since April 8 they have kept the residents of Ilama in anxiety.
At 8:36 am, another group of policemen together with members of the Special Forces entered as reinforcements and began to inspect module 5 and 7, where the members of a criminal structure are, to check the areas where they sleep.
The inmates were taken out to a patio, while the policemen beat the walls of the cells with sledgehammers in search of suitable hidden compartments to hide weapons, according to sources who participated in the operation. THE PREMIUM PRESS.
In the patio, the agents also dug for weapons that the inmates presumably bury to hide them, but found nothing.
They also thoroughly searched for drugs in pipes, as well as in toilets.
For the operation, three security rings were made, leaving the third in the outer part in charge of the military battalion of Saint Barbara.
When it was 9:25 in the morning, a group from the General Directorate of Prosecutors entered the prison to run proceedings, but after an hour they left the place.
“ We will remain in support for as long as necessary, always providing security. “
Denis Velásquez, military commander
Prior to the start of the movement, the cell phone signal was blocked in the area, even the residents of call They said they were affected and only the wifi network was working.
El Pozo is the first prison to be intervened as part of a process planned by the supervisory board of the National Penitentiary Institute (INP) based on ten points, which includes a disarmament of the prisoners.
In the Ilama prison there are 1,466 inmates, most of them members of the Pandilla 18 and the MS-13, whom they also intend to separate by prisons to avoid confrontations like the ones that took place this year.
Search
The Commissioner President of the Comptroller and Vice Minister of Security, Julissa Villanuevasaid in an interview with the government channel that “we are looking for corrupt people who have allowed the entry of firearms, which have caused many deaths inside prisons.”
He warned that they are not going to allow more deaths inside the penal centers, in addition that investigations of the registered homicides will be carried out.
Fact
> There are currently 1,466 inmates in the El Pozo prison, where the majority of inmates are members of the 18 Gang and the Mara Salvatrucha.
“This is just beginning, we are doing an exhaustive analysis of this process that we do not know how long it will last,” he said. He added that only two modules were reviewed yesterday. Through dialogue, the prisoners were asked to open the doors for the exhaustive review.
“All the staff of call It will be removed, directors and administrators and all the actions carried out from there will be thoroughly checked and if there are more brawls we will return, because it means that there are more weapons, “he said.
While staying outside The holeColonel Denis Omar Velázquez, commander of the second Pinalejo Artillery Battalion, stressed that they were supporting the National Police by providing security outside the prison. He indicated that with 300 elements they will be there as long as necessary for the operation. Penitentiary Refoundation I.
According to police authorities, the search in modules 5 and 7 lasted until late at night, but they had not found the rifles or pistols that they had planned to find.
“ We are looking for corrupt people who have allowed the entry of firearms. “
Denis Velásquez, military commander
However, the operation will continue this day in other modules and the same dynamic will be maintained: those deprived of their liberty are asked to open the cell doors, since the authorities themselves have accepted that they are the ones in control to do so.
The members of the intervention commission have announced that the operations will continue in the jails of La Hopperlocated in Morocelí, El Paraíso, as well as the Siria and Támara prisons, both in Francisco Morazán.
Támara is the most populated prison, with 4,198 inmates, while in Syria there are 2,578 inmates and in La Tolva 1,999.
In addition to confiscating weapons, it is intended to leave the inmates without cell phones and drugs, they will also be monitored with cameras 24 hours a day.
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