The driver who this Wednesday starred in a movie break in the San José neighborhood after which he ended up surrendering to the Security Forces has been provisionally released after testifying before the judge on duty. He assures that when he heard the detonations “he was scared”, since he did not know that those who shot him were police officers because “they did not identify themselves, nor did they wear badges, or badge, or anything.” In addition, he affirms that he is a baker and that he was in that place because he was going to deliver the merchandise in two kiosks in the area, not to sell drugs to minors, as the Local Police suspected.
Sources in the case have informed LA GACETA that after spending the night in the jail, the arrested man appeared before the judge on duty after which he was released on charges of a crime against road safety and another of attack on police officers. The authority.
According to him, he is a baker by profession and he was on the Carbajosa Highway, in the San José neighborhood, because he was going to distribute merchandise at two kiosks in the area, as he has been doing for years.
He was smoking a cigarette when he suddenly saw an unmarked van arrive, which hit him and at that moment another van pulled up next to him, one of the officers firing at his vehicle.
“I got scared and ran away,” he declared at the court appearance, in which he stressed that the policemen “have not identified themselves, there were no badges, no uniforms, no badges, or anything.”
After the judicial interrogation, which lasted barely twenty minutes, the investigating judge number One of Salamanca, acting as a guard, ordered his release, investigated for the aforementioned crimes, sources point out, noting that at no time did the judge arrive even to enter into the alleged drug deals of the arrested person that would have given rise to the police intervention.
According to sources in the case reported this Wednesday, the events began at around 10:30 am. Two camouflaged patrols of the Local Police were at the doors of the Institute of the Provincial Council within the operation of the drug control plan in educational centers.
The agents were without uniforms and accompanied by the drug detector dog, since, according to the sources, days before they had received a complaint from someone who claimed to have observed in the vicinity of the educational center a man who was selling narcotic substances to the students. students.
At that moment, the suspect started his vehicle and started the march, hitting one of the police vehicles and also one of the agents, who suffered a slight injury to his hand.
Given the seriousness of the situation, the sources pointed out, the agents used their weapons and even shot at the wheels of the suspicious van to try to stop it, not succeeding, so they had to request the collaboration of the Civil Guard when they saw that the vehicle was going to leave the municipal limit.
At noon, the driver appeared, accompanied by his lawyer, before the Civil Guard and immediately afterwards before the National Police, which is investigating the case and proceeded to arrest him.
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