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The leaders of the feared criminal gang Aragua Train They fled abroad before authorities occupied the prison where they operated VenezuelaThis Friday, an organization that defends the human rights of prisoners was denounced.
More than 11 thousand security agents, supported by armored vehicles, took over the Tocoron Prison, in the state of Aragua (central-north), the center of operations of this Venezuelan gang that operates in several Latin American countries. No injuries were reported in reports from government spokespeople, although weapons of war, including rocket launchers and grenades, were seized.
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“The most violent (prisoners); In other words, the ‘pranes’ had already negotiated (with the authorities) the eviction from the facilities and emigrated from the country a week ago.”denounced a statement from the NGO Venezuelan Prison Observatory (OVV).
The ‘pranes’, as the leaders of prisoners in Venezuela’s prisons are called, had so much control that they built a kind of citadel in the prison with a luxurious nightclub, a zoo and a baseball field.
He OVV The document does not specify which countries they would have gone to.
This organization accused the authorities of “opacity”, demanding information about the crime bosses who were detained stumpwhen prisoners are transferred to other prisons in the country in the process of eviction.
“Three days after (the intervention), there are no traces of Héctor Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, aka “Niño” Guerrerotop leader of the prison and the Aragua Train (…), nor of any of the lieutenants”he emphasizes.
The Minister of the Interior, Admiral Remigio Ceballos, said that tunnels were built in the prison through which the prisoners escaped, without specifying how many are at large.
Ceballos reported that four prison officers were arrested, accused of collaborating with criminals.
“We would like to know more about how these officials managed to get in with self-propelled rockets and long guns without the complicity of many other people”questions the OVV.
Around 1,600 prisoners were in stump at the time of the intervention, according to authorities. He OVV He states that the place, with capacity for 750 inmates, has already housed more than 5,000.
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Source: Elcomercio
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