The police director describes himself as a “mistake” murder for the deaf and dumb and apologizes

The crime against José Mauricio Salazar took place in 2017 in Zaragoza. An agent of the Operational Tactical Section (STO) was sentenced in 2018 to 20 years in prison.

The director of the National Civil Police (PNC), Mauricio Arriaza Chicas, publicly apologized to the family of José Mauricio Salazar, 38, killed by a police officer on April 24, 2017, in Zaragoza, Freedom Department.

Salazar was deaf-mute and at the time was identified as a member of a gang carrying a rifle and confronted police five meters away while patrolling the El Saite II district of Zaragoza.

But investigations showed that on the day of the murder, the victim was wearing an exercise because he was taking him to his father. The police opened fire on José, then lied saying that they were going to attack him and that’s why they shot him.

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To support his lie, the agents changed the scene, disappeared the drill and placed a firearm next to the body, however, the ballistic test ruled out that José used the weapon (a revolver), as established in the process.

Despite the manner in which the crime was committed and the change of scene by the police, for Arriaza Chicas, this was a “mistake” in the police procedure.

“As general manager of @PNCSV, I want to apologize for the case publicly and directly to the family, because they were very hurt by that mistake made in 2017,” Arriaza Chicas said yesterday in a public event held in the La Libertad Centro Sur Delegation in Santa Tecla, where he was accompanied by the head of that delegation, Andrés Ramírez.

The police director also apologized because at the time, a police officer claimed that the victim belonged to gangs. “Given that statement that was made at that time, I categorically deny that the person mentioned above belonged to the gangs,” he clarified.

Arriaza recalled that “the person responsible for that error has already been prosecuted and convicted of the crime of aggravated homicide”, referring to the sentence against José Francisco Ramírez Rodríguez in a 2018 trial, in which he was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

Ramírez Rodríguez was an agent in the operational tactics section (STO). In this trial, another defendant was acquitted.

Lawyer Idhuca asks the chief of police
Before Arriaza Chicas’ words, Idhuca’s lawyer, Arnau Baulenas, declared on his Twitter account: “It was not a police procedure! He was MURDERED. Is it proving today that killing humble people is part of the job of the police? Embarrassment of the title. By the way, the current @Director_PNC was the Deputy Director of Specialized in the past Government ”.

But his reaction went further. Given the statements of the police chief that “as @PNCSV we have always shown total readiness to cooperate with the competent authorities to deduce responsibilities, especially when a police officer is involved,” lawyer Idhuca said that this is a lie.

“The lie @ Director_PNC! The PNC covered up the incident and changed the crime scene to try to justify a confrontation. 4 years after I apologize. In other cases, such as Carla Ayala, they do not want to pay compensation for children. Don’t collaborate! The lawyer asked.

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