The Ecuador Police announced this Saturday that it has captured a suspect in the shooting murder of Diana Carnerocouncilor of the coastal municipality of Orangewho was gunned down by hitmen last Wednesday.
The general commander of the Police, César Augusto Zapata, indicated in his X network account that The detainee apparently belonged to an organized crime group in the countryclassified by the Government as terrorists.
“This afternoon, investigative procedures carried out by the Police made it possible to apprehend the person allegedly involved in the death of Councilor Diana Carnero,” said Zapata and insisted that the apprehended subject “presumably belonged to a terrorist group.”
The State Prosecutor’s Office announced last Thursday the beginning of a preliminary investigation into the murder of Carnero, which occurred on Wednesday afternoon on a public road in a sector of Naranjalin the province of Guayas, whose capital is the port city of Guayaquil.
This murder occurred at a time when the country is subject to a state of emergency and a “internal armed conflict” declared by the Government against organized crime, which empowers the military to support the Police in internal security actions.
The young Ecuadorian councilor, 29 years old, belonged to the Citizen Revolution movementled by former president Rafael Correa (2007-2017).
The Ecuadorian president, Daniel Noboa, declared a state of emergency in early January and decreed an “internal armed conflict” to try to stop the spiral of violence in prisons and on the streets nationwide, attributed to organized crime groups. dedicated mainly to drug trafficking. EFE
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