Panama. The Panamanian authorities arrested this Thursday the Ecuadorian Julio Alberto Martínez, alias “Negro Tulio”, allegedly concerned within the homicide of “dozens of law enforcement officials” and two prosecutors in Ecuador, the director of the Panama Police, John Dornheim, reported this Thursday.
Together with Martínez, 5 different individuals have been detained, 4 of Ecuadorian nationality and certainly one of Colombian nationality, all of them undocumented, Dornheim added in a brief video revealed on the X (previously Twitter) account of the Panamanian police.
In accordance with this official, there are additionally youngsters detained after the police operation, carried out in Panama Metropolis.
“Negro Tulio” is allegedly concerned in “the murders of dozens of law enforcement officials and two prosecutors” in Ecuador, Dornheim acknowledged.
Among the many murdered prosecutors is the anti-mafia prosecutor César Suárez, shot to demise in January when he was driving his automobile via a neighborhood of Guayaquil, within the southwest.
Suárez was investigating an assault on a tv station, when an armed group interrupted a stay program on the TC channel on January 9, within the midst of the violence disaster within the nation.
The Ecuadorian police additionally confirmed the arrest on his X account.
“Captured in Panama alias ‘Negro Tulio’, high-value goal and chief of the Chone Killers,” says the Ecuadorian police, who accuse the detainee of being “the mental writer of a number of terrorist assaults which have occurred since 2022.”
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– 2024-05-31 06:33:16
