They destroy a pavilion in prison from where police officers were attacked in Ecuador

The president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, announced on Tuesday that a pavilion from which soldiers were attacked has been destroyed, in one of the largest and most populated prisons in the country, located in the coastal province of Guayas (southwest).

“We overthrew the consular pavilion in the Penitentiary, used to attack uniformed personnel who entered to carry out operations,” Lasso wrote on his Twitter account.

We demolished the consular pavilion in the Penitentiary, used to attack uniformed personnel who entered to carry out operations. We will eliminate any infrastructure that criminal gangs have used to resist the order of our public force. pic.twitter.com/a7PgE7aEgM

— Guillermo Lasso (@LassoGuillermo) November 8, 2022

And he added that they will eliminate “any infrastructure that criminal gangs have used to resist the order of our public force.”

The penitentiary is one of the detention centers where there have been riots and clashes between inmates in recent months.

ATTACKS AND PRISON BRAWLS

The province of Guayas, together with those of Esmeraldas and Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, is under a state of emergency and with a curfew at dawn since last week, after several attacks with explosives were registered, which the Government attributes to retaliation by organized crime in its fight against drug trafficking.

The attacks occurred at a time when a process of transferring prisoners to other prisons began, in order to avoid overcrowding, according to the authority in charge of prison control.

The barrage of attacks also coincided with a brawl at the Guayas Number 1 prison, known as La Penitenciaría del Litoral, located in the city of Guayaquilcapital of Guayasin which Two inmates died and six others were injured.

Some 2,600 law enforcement officers, including police and military, intervened in said prison to transfer highly dangerous prisoners to another prison in the neighboring province of Manabialong with a “rotation” of inmates between the pavilions that make up the Penitentiary.

The agents who participated in that intervention on Thursday were shot at by groups of prisoners and as reported by the National Comprehensive Care Service for Persons Deprived of Liberty (SNAI), 15 police officers and 3 soldiers were injured.

The attacks last week in Guayas, Esmeraldas and Santo Domingo, in which five policemen have died and several more were injured, included gunfights between policemen and criminals, car explosions and attacks on police units.

Precisely last night antisocials shot at a Community Police Unit (UPC) in the province of Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, according to the Police in a trill on Twitter, in which they attached a photograph in which a completely destroyed glass door can be seen. .

Source: Elcomercio

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