One of the PNB officers involved in the arrest and torture of John Álvarez was seen in western Caracas with his motorcycle last week. The vehicle is now for sale on the MarketPlace platform through third parties. The students’ lawyers will pressure international organizations “because we are not going to get justice here”
After 40 days in detention and after a week of being reviewed by forensic medicine officials, the Public Ministry has not opened a formal investigation against the officials accused of torturing and robbing the student John Álvarez, the lawyer Joel Garcia.
The lawyer stated SuchWhich that, due to judicial inaction within the country, they will turn to international organizations. «(The Public Ministry) no longer acts, it is not going to do so. That is impunity, it is a necessary complicity between doctors and prosecutors. What we have left is the international body and continue the complaint in the Human Rights Council, as we already did, and continue talking because we are not going to get justice here.
The torture committed by officials of the Strategic and Tactical Action Directorate (DAET) of the PNB were denounced by John Álvarez during his presentation hearing on September 4. Two days later, his parents reported these events to the Ombudsman’s Office and on September 13 they went to the Attorney General’s Office, which had not taken action until Tuesday the 26th, when a forensic specialist diagnosed him with loss of vision in the eye. left, inflammation of the left kidney and an injury to the right leg.
García was able to see the report issued by the Bello Monte forensic doctor and assured that the document is “totally contrary” to the student’s sufferings, as it mentions that he is in “normal conditions” and only recognizes the injury to his leg and a flu condition. «The report says that everything is fine, except that it recommends that he be seen by a traumatology specialist for the leg, but it does not say anything else that it was torture. “It’s like a normal medical exam.”
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The lawyers of the UCV student, detained on August 30 by PNB officials in the center of Caracas, denounced the cover-up of the torture by officials of the forensic medicine service.
«What they are is investigating the file against John for conspiracy, they are relating him to the six union members sentenced to 16 years. I reported on the whereabouts of the motorcycle, that they are selling it through MarketPlace, that it was stolen the day of his arrest,” commented Joel García.
3) In the past few days, we were able to see one of his torturers driving John Álvarez’s motorcycle through a popular sector of Western Caracas. Now, the bike is being sold through the Marketplace platform. We provide the Public Ministry with information in this regard. pic.twitter.com/tA0mFVXaTx
— Joel García (@joelgarcia69) October 10, 2023
Regarding the robbery of the student, he explained that they were able to verify that one of the PNB officers involved in his detention and torture was seen in western Caracas with that vehicle last week. Now the motorcycle is for sale on this platform through third parties.
The lawyer also mentioned that John Álvarez was visited by a representative of the Ombudsman’s Office last week, which had sent a letter to the Public Ministry to find out if this body initiated the corresponding investigations.
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