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prosecutor investigating femicides in Ecuador, he was killed this Monday by gunmen in front of the headquarters of the prosecutor’s office in the port of Guayaquil, the judiciary said.
Edgar Escobar, who was part of the department responsible for hate crimes and women Because of his gender, he was “shot dead this morning” outside the building where he worked, prosecutors said on Twitter.
According to the agency, two alleged aggressors have already been detained on a densely populated hill in Guayaquil, where they fired crime wave associated with drug trafficking, which also hit the prisons of the port: hundreds of people were killed in prison massacres between rival gangs.
“During the police actions, a motorcycle and a weapon from which the victim was shot were seized,” the prosecutor’s office added.
The murder of prosecutor Escobar shocked a country still in shock from disappearance a week ago, lawyer Maria Belin Bernal at the police station in Quito.
The woman enrolled at the Police Superior School (ESP) to visit her husband, Lieutenant Germán Caceres, and nothing has been known of her whereabouts since.
Given the suspicion that it might be femicide, the lieutenant gave a judicial statement, after which he is wanted. The government fired Cáceres and removed the head of the officer training school from his post.
Ecuador recorded high scores gender violence. At least 573 women have been killed in cases classified as femicide since 2014, according to prosecutors.
Only so far in 2022 there are 206 registered killing womenaccording to Geraldine Guerra of the Fundación Aldea, which maps femicides in the country.
Two prosecutors and a judge killed
In the midst of concerns over attacks on women in Ecuador, Escobar’s assassination it also highlights violence against the judiciary.
Three officials have been killed since last May: in addition to Escobar, a judge in the Amazonian town of Lago Agrio (northeast Ecuador, near the border with Colombia) and a transit prosecutor in the fishing port of Manta (southwest). All three were shot dead.
Along with drug trafficking, crime has risen in the country of 18 million, located between Colombia and Peru, the world’s largest producers of cocaine.
In 2021, there were 14 homicides per 100,000 people, almost double the number in 2020.
Bloody clashes between drug-trafficking prisoners have killed nearly 400 people since February 2021, and there have been seven massacres since then, some of the worst in the world. Latin America.
Ecuadorian authorities they seized an annual record of 210 tons of drugs in 2021 and so far this year about 150 tons.
AFP
Source: RPP
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