A/HRC/45/CRP.11 Shells Calibre Compatibility 2 380 car Gun not visible, serial: 4383 3 .7.65 mm Gun brand CZ, model 83, serial: 024451 3 .9 mm Glock 2 .9 mm Glock (but different weapon than above) 1133. Glock pistols were the weapons assigned to the officers that day. The CICPC presented the other two guns as the brothers’ weapons and claimed both were found near C4FF20’s body. According to the officers, C4FF19 had thrown his gun next to his brothers’ body, while trying to escape over the exterior wall.2019 1134. Documentary evidence determined that the brothers were killed by shots from two 9mm Glock pistols with serial numbers EHV316 and EBG406 and that these were the weapons assigned to two of the officials that participated in the OLP. 2020 1135. The investigation progressed under the Seventy-Sixth Public Prosecutor’s Office. Four agents were charged according to their degree of participation. One officer was charged with simulation of a punishable act, aggravated homicide, misuse of a service weapon, and three of his colleagues were charged as accomplices to one or more of these crimes. 1136. The Public Prosecutor’s Office requested the dismissal of the case against one of the officers because he was killed in the area of La Rinconada in Maracaibo on 19 November 2016.2021 Another officer evaded arrest and was a fugitive from justice at the time of writing.2022 1137. In September 2016, the Public Prosecutor’s Office requested arrest warrants for the officials who had participated in the OLP from the Third Court of Control of the Criminal Circuit of the state of Zulia, but the court ruled that the request was unmerited. 2023 1138. At the end of September 2016, the Seventy-Sixth National Public Prosecutor’s Office, who led the investigation and presented the accusation, was replaced by the Forty-Fifth Local Public Prosecutor’s Office. According to a complaint filed by the victims’ relatives to the Public Ministry of the Judicial Circumscription, the Forty-Fifth Local Public Prosecutor’s Office lacked impartiality and initiated the trial without summoning the victims. 2024 1139. On 9 November 2017, the Third Control Court in a preliminary hearing ordered that the officials be tried and await trial without applying any precautionary measures to guarantee their presence at trial.2025 1140. The Eighth Trial Court decided the case on 21 November 2018 and acquitted the two officers on all counts, arguing that evidence was not conclusive to determine, beyond reasonable doubt, the police officers’ criminal responsibility for the killings. 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Mission Interview C4FF05 in June 2020 and document C4FF03 on file with the Mission. Document C4FF03 on file with the Mission. Document C4FF03 on file with the Mission. Mission Interview C4FF05 in June 2020. Ibid. Document C4FF19, on file with the Mission. Document C4FF16, on file with the Mission. See also Versión Final, Cuatro policías imputados por muertes de Santa Rosa están libres, 26 March 2018, available at: https://versionfinal.com.ve/sucesos/cuatro-policias-imputados-por-muertes-en-olp-de-santa-rosaestan-libres/. 223