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six prisoners killed in the Litoral prison, the largest prison in Ecuador, correspond Colombians accused for allegedly participating in murder presidential candidate of Ecuador, Fernando Villavicencio. The National
six prisoners killed in the Litoral prison, the largest prison in Ecuador, correspond Colombians accused for allegedly participating in murder presidential candidate of Ecuador, Fernando Villavicencio.
The National Service for the Comprehensive Service of Persons Deprived of Liberty (SNAI), the government body responsible for the protection and management of Ecuadorian prisons, confirmed the identities of the bodies.
These six men were believed to be the perpetrators of Villavicencio’s murder, as well as a seventh man of the same nationality who was an assassin who shot the candidate and died moments later.
This assassination occurred shortly after the United States government offered up to five million dollars as a reward to anyone who could provide information about the mastermind who ordered Villavicencio’s murder.
The deceased were in the seventh pavilion of the penitentiary, officially called the Guayas Detention Center No. 1 and located in the city of Guayaquil, with a dozen pavilions controlled by various criminal groups, where about 5,700 people are detained.
A warning about the death of the alleged Villavicencio killers was issued earlier by the civil platform SOS Cárceles Ecuador, which classified it as a murder and reported that six Colombians allegedly requested transfer to a safer prison.
According to reports from prison guards quoted by SOS Carceles Ecuador, the bodies of the murdered prisoners “They show no signs of torture or battle wounds.“.
The Litoral penitentiary system is the largest detention center in the Guayaquil prison complex, consisting of five prisons that house a total of approximately 12,300 people.
There were also recorded most numerous massacres series of massacres in which more than 400 prisoners have been killed in the Ecuadorian prison system since 2020, mainly due to clashes between Rival criminal gangs.
Recently, police and military forces entered the pavilions in a series of operations during which a large number of weapons were confiscated from prisoners, including rifles, pistols, grenades, grenade launchers and explosivesas well as numerous knives and other prohibited items.
Six Colombians were among 13 people prosecuted in connection with the murder of Villavicencio, which occurred on August 9 after a political rally in Quito, with just 11 days left before the first round of snap elections.
A month later, seven more people were arrested, including four in the El Inca prison in Quito and Latacunga in Cotopaxi, controlled by the Los Lobos criminal group, because, according to prosecutors, they allegedly had ties to the group. Colombians a few days before the murder of Villavicencio.
Villavicencio’s killing brings an unprecedented wave of violence attributed to organized crime that has made Ecuador in recent years one of the most violent countries in the world, with a homicide rate of 25.32 in 2022, the highest since recorded. (EFE)
Source: Aristegui Noticias
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