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10 years ago

Police fire on a family - Again

10 years ago

http://www.prensa.com/impreso/panorama/policias-senafront-disparan-familia/234024

INCIDENT: Officials talk to Santos Sanabria, father wounded in shooting
28/11/2013 -

Despite warnings from Security Minister, Jose Raul Mulino, to regulate the implementation of checkpoints by police, a new incident occurred Sunday night, when members of the National Service Borders (SENAFRONT) shot at five people, including an eight month old who was injured.

A lawyer, Edmundo Botello, the representative of the affected family, said the incident occurred when Santos Sanabria was traveling along with his wife and son in a small truck hired to transport some goods, and were intercepted by a group of armed men on a dark road, where they were shot.

Botello said the truck driver, Oscar Bolivar Samudio said he had to "jump" onto the floor of the truck to avoid the bullets, and that after the incident the police asked him to apologize!

He explained that during the shooting the son of the couple was wounded by shrapnel from the detached front windshield that was hit by bullets.

He added that he filed a criminal complaint against the three police officers on charges of attempted murder, as the shots that were made from high-powered weapons, put their lives at risk.

Officials reported yesterday that SENAFRONT followed this vehicle on it’s way to the Renaissance Personería to file the complaint.

SENAFRONT director, Frank Abrego, said the policemen were discharged by the Disciplinary Board and will be turned over to prosecutors.

According to Abrego, the incident occurred when Police received information about an irregular movement in the area of Copal, Renaissance, so they sent a group of officers to verify it and apparently the moving vehicle did not heed the signs of the police to stop.

He argued that the three police officers violated police regulations to use their firearms against civilians, not to report the incident, and to try to come to terms on a personal level with those affected.

This is the fourth incident in which police fired on individual cars. The first was on October 23 when two children died at a police checkpoint in San Carlos.

Five days later the truck with presidential candidate Genaro Lopez aboard, was hit by police during an operation, and on the 17th of September, a group of anti-kidnapping police shot up a car in Zaíta Villa, Las Cumbres, leaving two injured women.

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