Ecuador: teenager who threw explosive at building is convicted of terrorism

A 17-year-old teenager was convicted of terrorism in Ecuador after being found guilty of throwing an explosive device at a building that suffered extensive material damage, as reported by the Public Prosecutor’s Office this Monday in a statement.

The Judge of the Family, Women, Children and Adolescent Judicial Unit of Emeraldson the north coast of Ecuadorordered the convict to be placed in a juvenile correctional center.

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The events occurred in the early hours of December 18, 2023, when the detonation of a explosive device in the city of Esmeraldas, which led to the Police go to the location after being alerted by the integrated emergency service ECU-911.

The agents observed a motorcycle that circulated around the place, whose occupants – upon realizing the presence of the authorities – tried to escape, according to the version of the public ministry.

After a chase of approximately ten minutes, The co-pilot jumped off the motorcycle to hide in the bushes.in the middle of the darkness of the sector, but soon after The police managed to intercept him in an abandoned house in that area.

Among the evidence presented by the Public Prosecutor’s Office during the trial is a morphological examination, with which it was proven that It was the teenager who threw the explosive object to the two-story property, which was decisive in the judge’s decision.

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Since the beginning of January, the president of Ecuador Daniel Noboadeclared the existence in the country of a “internal armed conflict” against organized crime to prevent an escalation of violence by criminal gangs that included the takeover of a television channel by an armed group and simultaneous riots in prisons with 200 prisoners who managed to be released.

With this declaration of “war”, twenty-two criminal gangs dedicated mainly to drug trafficking and that had established links with Mexican drug cartels were considered terrorist groups and non-state belligerent actors. Sinaloa It is Jalisco New Generationas well as with the Albanian mafia, to send cocaine produced mainly in Colombia to North America It is Europe.

The rise of these mafias, which control entire prisons in Ecuador, has made the Andean country one of the most violent in the world. Latin Americawith a rate of around 45 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants in 2023.

Source: Elcomercio

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