A riot at the Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil (Ecuador) ended with the death of six Colombians accused of the assassination of Fernando Villavicencio, presidential candidate of that country.
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The National Service for Comprehensive Attention to Adults Deprived of Liberty and Adolescent Offenders (SNAI) of Ecuador reported that the six Colombians accused of the assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio were murdered in the Guayaquil prison in the middle of a riot.
These are Jhon Gregore R., Andrés Manuel M., Adey Fernando G., Camilo Andrés R., Sules Osmin C. and José Neyder L., who were held in this prison while the investigation into the murder of the politician and journalist.
“The National Government condemns this fact and ratifies its political will to collaborate with the pertinent investigations in order to identify those intellectually responsible for the former candidate’s crime,” stated the SNAI statement.
The murder of the six Colombians occurred in the midst of disturbances in a prison in the port city of Guayaquil, in southwestern Ecuador, which has been one of the scenes of massacres among inmates that have left, according to authorities, more than 430 deaths since then. 2021.
