FMLN Secretary General Óscar Ortiz condemned the incident and described it as “terrorist”. The Attorney General reported that there were three detainees allegedly responsible for the incident and one was injured. Among the FMLN there are two dead and two more injured who are being treated at Rosales.
Nidia Díaz, the head of the FMLN faction, denounced this afternoon that, after a rally in Redondel Constitución, San Salvador’s candidate for mayor, Rogelio Canales, a caravan of FMLN militants was attacked on their way to the party’s headquarters in downtown San Salvador known as “229”.
“The images came from a blue sedan that crossed and pulled out a gun and started firing at comrades,” Diaz said.
At the end of the night, police announced that two had died, while, according to Díaz, there is another who is divided between life and death in the Rosales Hospital Intensive Care Unit, and others are injured, receiving care at Rosales Hospital. his condition is delicate, Díaz said, in a sound he sent to reporters.
The names of the deceased are: Gloria Rogel de López and Juan de Dios Portillo Tejada, FMLN sources reported.
Prosecutor General Raúl Melara reported that night that what had happened was “serious.” “There was an attack on supporters of a political party, resulting in two deaths and five injuries. This is serious, the election contest can not become a bloodbath. We are investigating now, we will judge those responsible “, he wrote on Twitter.
This is what the bed of the vehicle in which the FMLN militants were carrying after the attack looked like. Deputy Nidia Diaz made this complaint. Photo EDH / Kindness
“It is a total crime to attack people in this way, it expresses intolerance and hatred that Nayib Bukele promotes to the population, the electoral rules are not the same, I ask the prosecutor to take action in this regard and the Supreme Electoral Court,” said the FMLN leader.
“A colleague has already died and another colleague is in intensive care, they are injured, this is the hatred that Bukele supports, never a dictatorship,” Díaz explained early, before confirming that there are two dead.
“We are outraged. We want to condemn this terrorist act, on behalf of our party, in order to send a message of rejection, of condemnation, of this criminal act which on this day at 18:25 was committed by a group of armed men in a car that deliberately provoked a vehicle carrying our properly identified colleagues coming from an activity, “FMLN Secretary General Óscar Ortiz said at an impromptu conference he held at Rosales Hospital.
This is very serious, Ortiz pointed out, and said that they have already contacted the prosecutor to initiate the investigations as soon as possible. That the police are also responsible for raising the facts.
In this regard, Bukele reported minutes after the FMLN conference that the police managed to capture two subjects in the blue sedan, “suspected of shooting the FMLN militants. One of the suspects is undergoing emergency surgery because he also has gunshot wounds to the abdomen, “said the president.
The attorney general, who was also present at Rosales Hospital, confirmed Bukele’s version, however, he spoke about three detainees for the bloody event and that one is injured.
Ortiz stressed that they had previously received repeated signs of threats, of blackmail, but that the FMLN would not be intimidated, but always warned that the exercise of democracy and not violence should prevail, “having the most violent person, the most rapist of everyone, who is the president of the Republic, who incites violence, hatred and confrontation and not only through his tweets “, Ortiz underlined.
I’m sorry for the last thing I saw from the so-called President of the Republic, “at least I don’t know him right now, I don’t know that guy who’s in the presidency, because I think he’s a savage, he’s leading the country.” in chaos, towards an unnecessary situation of social confrontation, later we will have more unfortunate events than we are witnessing ”, reflected Ortiz.
“Killing on the street, in front of many witnesses and in an electoral context, a brutal and savage act that is especially detrimental to democratic coexistence. Investigation, pursuit and arrest are inevitable. The blood-stained choices would be disgusting. Justice is the only way “, wrote on his Twitter account the priest José María Tojeira, the director of the social ministry at UCA.
The Human Rights Prosecutor’s Office posted on Twitter “the strong condemnation of the criminal action carried out against FMLN militants, who were victims of a gun attack, this Sunday afternoon, in the center of the city of San Salvador. The incident took place after they were returning from a rally “, says PDDH.
Other FMLN deputies joined the public complaint. “I report that at 18:20 a brigade of duly identified comrades of the FMLN was attacked with bullets, between 11 Avenida Norte and 1a. Poniente Street. This attack on our companions leaves 4 wounded and one dead. I demand an investigation and immediate action from the Prosecutor’s Office and the PNC “, posted the deputy Yanci Urbina on Twitter.
“The president’s hate speech generates violence and death. This afternoon, FMLN comrades were attacked in downtown San Salvador, resulting in 4 injuries and one death. The prosecutor’s office must act immediately, the criminals will not control the Assembly. We swear to win, “FMLN leader Lorena Peña said on Twitter.
FMLN sources reported that there are two people, 2 tubes and one stable.
Meanwhile, police on their Twitter account reported that an attack on FMLN people took place in downtown San Salvador.
“We have started to carry out actions to search for and prosecute those responsible for this infamous act, because the Police will not allow violence due to the election campaign,” the PNC published.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, “the alleged Alianza fans fired inside the FMLN”, but FMLN sources explained to El Diario de Hoy that armed men who were following the caravan were attacked, apparently drunk, but not fans of the Alliance, say the sources.
The attorney general summoned the general secretaries of all political parties to an urgent meeting tomorrow Monday in his office.
“Mr. Prosecutor General: count on my presence and the support of ARENA in this serious situation that has arisen. We are waiting for the presence of the other presidents or secretaries and not of the delegates “, Coena president Erick Salguero published on Twitter.
“ARENA strongly condemns political violence, which threatens security, life, democracy and human rights. These actions are the visible result of incitement to hatred, intolerance and division, ”Salguero added.
“We condemn this act of violence that took the lives of several FMLN militants and we stand in solidarity with the families of the victims. We reject hate speech and demand prompt justice; this country must never tolerate political violence, “the Nuestro Tiempo party said on Twitter.
Assembly President Mario Ponce of the PCN condemned the attack and called on state institutions to work through a thorough investigation to bring those responsible to justice, he said in a tweet.
Bukele also spoke on his Twitter account. “It seems that the dying parties have implemented their latest plan. What a despair not to lose their privileges and corruption. I thought I couldn’t go down, but they fell, “he said.
DEVELOPING INFORMATION
The armed group gets off the ambulance and attacks two members of the Ilopango Doctors Without Borders
Doctors Without Borders is temporarily suspending its activities in El Salvador after the gang attack