Prosecutor confirms medical security officers among detainees linked to attack on FMLN militants | News from El Salvador

Raúl Melara reiterated that three suspects are arrested in this case, where two people died.

“The information I manage so far is that one of the people involved is from the Division for the Protection of Important Personalities (PPI) assigned to the Ministry of Health (Minsal), the other is a motorist from Minsal and there is a third, he is an important agent private security in Minsal “, said the general prosecutor, Raúl Melara, on this day in connection with those arrested for the attack against FMLN militants committed on Sunday.

According to Melara, in the attack “more than two supporters of a political party lost their lives, two Salvadorans died yesterday, it is something we must all regret.”

The prosecutor confirmed that at this moment there are three people who are being detained and two more in detention. He also said that he classifies this case as a bit confusing as there are injuries on both sides of the case.

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Melara explained that a new on-site inspection was carried out on Monday morning; He also said that a search is being carried out in the facilities attached to the Ministry of Health where the blue vehicle is parked, from which three people involved in the altercation came out.

“We are doing another type of due diligence that allows us to know what happened,” he said.

“Today we classify it as an act of intolerance, obviously we are in a period of political campaigning, but we want to see it as an act of intolerance that should not happen further,” he said.

The prosecutor gave statements at the end of the meeting with the leaders of the various political parties, in which there was no representation of the New Ideas. The official said he did not know the reasons for the absence of that political institute, as he assured that “everyone was invited”.

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