An elite group of the Ecuadorian National Police has forcibly broken into the Mexican embassy in Quito, after 10:00 p.m. this Friday, April 5. The uniformed men, in black vehicles, have broken the external doors of the diplomatic headquarters and entered the patios, leaving shortly after.
A few minutes later, the National Government has confirmed the capture of the former vice president Jorge Glaswho had been taking refuge there since last December 17 to avoid appearing before the Prosecutor’s Office in a process of alleged embezzlement in the reconstruction of Manabí after the earthquake of April 2016.
«The Security Block detains Jorge Glas»said the Government in a message on social networks.
The exit of the vehicle that apparently carried Glas has tried to be hindered by the Mexican chargé d’affaires, Roberto Canseco, with his own body, and who has also confronted the police officers, and has rolled on the ground.
«Every embassy has a single purpose: to serve as a diplomatic space with the aim of strengthening relations between countries»the Government has argued, in a statement published in X. «No criminal can be considered politically persecuted. “Jorge Glas has been sentenced with an enforceable sentence and had an arrest warrant issued by a competent authority.”
“This is totally unacceptable, this cannot be, it is barbarism,” Canseco cried. «They can murder Mr. Glas, who is a persecuted person»he said in the middle of the street.
Glas has obtained political asylum from the president’s government Andrés Manuel López Obrador the morning of this April 5th.
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