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“I will clarify that everything I will talk about now is in all my statements, from Sunday to today, which was the last contact I had with Technical Criminal Investigation Agency“Dr. Edgar José Velásquez Orellana declared the program on Thursday night conclusions from CNN. Velásquez is a key witness in this case Keyla Martinez, young man for whom he died mechanical suffocation according to him Public ministry.
“On Saturday, February 6, around nine o’clock at night, we were intercepted by two police patrols. They motioned for me to stop. I’m focused. I’m asking for my documents. They give me my medical card and my driving license and the documents of the car I am driving ”.
After examining the papers, according to the doctor’s account, they asked him if he knew he was on the left. “I said yes and that I was already going home. The officer in charge said a few words to me that I actually ignored. I didn’t pay attention to him. And he asked me to let you talk to me. He immediately gave us the order to get out of the car. “
According to the doctor, after getting out of the car, the agents opened the four doors of the car and also the trunk. “I asked them why they opened my car. I’m not bringing anything. Do nothing. Why did they do that. The officer ordered me to be handcuffed. And that annoyed me a little bit because they treated me in a way that I had never had such an experience. I asked them why they did that. I’m not a murderer. “
“He told me what he thought of me, who I was to make these kinds of comments. He ordered Keyla and I to be brought to the police patrol bucket and ordered an officer to take my car for Post”.
“It was about eleven-thirty. They just handcuffed me. I was still telling them we were in uniform. We have to take care of ourselves. Take care of me outside. The day they get to a hospital, I’ll take care of them. He should not do such things. We are not doing anything to be treated that way. “
“I remember telling them I was hurting them, so they asked me if anyone had hit me, I said no, but the handcuffs would crush my hands when they took them out.”
“Keyla, all the way in the car tray, tried to calm me down, she told me, Edgar, doctor, calm down, don’t argue with them, it bothers you. Listen to me. He tried to calm me down all the way I came to police station”.
Once they entered the police station, the doctor said they were taken to a person to record their personal data. “I had three or four people at the time. The data was taken from Keyla by police officers and from me by male officers. I want to explain that at no time did they let me put on my mask when they got out of the vehicle and did not remove the handcuffs. In collecting data, they took my personal belongings “.
Then he adds that the agents took him out and made him identify his car. And he adds that he continued to insist that they not do that, that he was not a murderer. “They told me that the university went through you and not you through the university. When I signed the books, they removed my handcuffs. After taking Keila’s data, the police took her to her cell. “
Then they brought it to him. They were given adjacent cells. The first was Keyla. “She was standing, held behind bars, she was alone, she was crying. And he said she had done nothing. Why were they closing it? Get it out. Then they put me inside cell”.
The doctor said that in cell There were ten people who received it. “Before entering cell I asked three times to let me make a phone call. After filling in my data, they read my rights. One of them said he was entitled to a call. I asked them and they wouldn’t let me. “
“I have never had this kind of experience. One at the entrance to cell he doesn’t know what to find. The people who were with me in this tragic night they were humble, hardworking. People who left their jobs after nine o’clock and who were taken to the cell because they were out of the yard nest hours ”.
Edgar Velasquez He says 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 had happened would be just an anecdote of laughing with friends, but that she was crying and that the others who were with him in cell they tried to encourage him.
He adds that after about 25 minutes they removed him from cell and they took a picture of him. After that he returned to cell and then Keyla asked to go to the bathroom and was taken by a policewoman. “She was crying and asking to be taken out.”
“I asked her to sing to me, she sang very well. We were trying to calm her down and talk. Suddenly he said I wanted to die. I’ll hang myself 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 didn’t answer. Then we started screaming. In about ten minutes, a policeman arrived with a flashlight and lit it cell from Keyla and returned quickly and brought four men. They opened cell Keyla and they performed it by weight, one person per member. Keyla was unconscious. I asked her to let me take her vital signs, that I was a doctor, that she let me check her, they ignored me, they didn’t listen to me and they left “.
“Then someone came back and took a picture and left again. I thought Keyla was taken to a hospital and she was in a better place than us. I never imagined a tragedy. They took her and, at six in the morning, the deputy commander in charge of police station and he asked who the doctor was, I identified myself and I wondered if I happened to have my ID card, I answered yes and why he wants it, he said he has to make a statement. I asked what she also told me was that her boyfriend was dead. I can’t explain how he feels at that moment. “
Edgar Velasquez He concluded by saying that at seven in the morning they took him out cell and they told him he was already free. He later asked for a phone call and talked to his father to pick him up. A short video in which the doctor and Keyla were arrested went viral in the last hours.
“Those responsible must go to jail”: irma lópez, legal representative
The legal representatives of the family from Keyla Martinez They demand that the investigations be carried out properly so that the culprits are imprisoned.
Irma Lopez, a legal representative of the Rodríguez family, said that “in the hands of the police they took her life, when they took her to the hospital emergency room, she had no vital signs, had blows to the body, had already been strangled, the police and the which he killed. ” López said that a few hours after the event, the relatives arrived at the police station to demand Keyle’s personal belongings, but the headquarters was already protected with a large number of men in uniform.
“The prosecutor’s office Public ministry Shift, at the right time, did not keep the crime scene, which in that case was the police station, the prosecutor had to act from the moment the doctors tell him the condition of his body “, said the legal defender.
The lawyer stated that thanks to God and the pressure of the people of Intibucá, Public ministry appointed two prosecutors with extensive experience in human rights violations.
“We will 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 comprehensive investigation, not to be carried out with a we need a formal indictment in order to subsequently issue a revocation by the courts. “
López assured that they will take those responsible to prison, they do not blame the entire National Police, for which they demand the individualization of the case.
Norma Rodriguez, his mother 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.”