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reach her relative’s house, but could not make it past the police cordon. C4FF16, from outside
the house, heard C4FF25 being yelled at and being beaten.
1093. The police officers did not allow anyone to enter the house. C4FF25’s body was found
later in the morgue. It is unclear whether he was alive or dead when he was taken from his
house.
1094. During a televised programme on 11 May 2016, GNB General Sergio Rivero Marcano
reported on the 10 May operation accompanied by General Eduardo Serrano, PNB Chief of
Operations and General Zavarse, GNB Commander of Zone Command No. 43 (Capital
District). General Rivero Marcano explained that the operation was implemented according
to instructions given by President Maduro, with the GNB deployed to the Coche parish, the
PNB deployed to the Cementerio sector and the CICPC to La Cota 905. 1950 General Rivero
said that there were no wounded or killed agents of the armed forces and that nine individuals
were killed in a “confrontation” with security forces.1951
1095. According to C4FF15, State authorities put together a false case file inventing a
criminal record of the victim. She said, “They wrote that he had extorted, that he had stolen,
that he was the leader of gang”.1952 C4FF15 said there still has not been justice for the crime,
noting that “this will keep happening […]. No one will change anything. Not even if you file
thousands of complaints everywhere you can […] so the only thing left to do is to pray, to
ask God to do justice someday, because on this side no one will bring justice”. 1953
Findings
1096. Based on the facts above, the Mission also has reasonable grounds to believe that at
least 15 young men were extrajudicially executed by security forces. More investigation is
required into the detentions that occurred during the same operation in order to conclude
whether they were arbitrary.
1097. Of these 15 young men, five were extrajudicially executed by five SEBIN officers,
five were extrajudicially executed by PNB agents and one was extrajudicially executed by
CICPC officers.
1098. The Mission has reasonable grounds to believe that C4FF25 was extrajudicially
executed by Caracas-based CICPC officers during the 10 May 2016 operation.
CASE 21: OLP Santa Rosa de Agua, Maracaibo, Zulia (September 2015)
1099. Originally an indigenous Añú settlement, Santa Rosa de Agua sits on the shores of
Lake Maracaibo, Zulia state. Its population is mainly dedicated to activities related to fishing.
It is accessible both by land and by lake, with direct access to the Caribbean Sea, making it
strategically important for both legal and illegal economic activities. Prior to the OLP detailed
here, security forces carried out four OLPs in Zulia state in August and September 2015.
1100. The first took place at Los Filúos market in La Guajira municipality on 9 August 2015.
Zulia state governor Francisco Arias Cárdenas appeared on television and announced that the
operation aimed to combat smuggling in the region.1954 He was flanked by the REDI
Occidente Commander, the ZODI commander for Zulia, the GNB Third Regional
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Sucreven HCF, Contacto Con Nicolás Maduro. OLP contra el paramilitarismo. Venezuela, from
minute 1:13:32, 11 May 2016, available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_CEDxANJcY.
Ibid., minute 1:22:22. See also El Estímulo, 9 muertos deja operativo militar para ubicar al “Coqui” y
“Lucifer”, 11 May 2016, available at: https://www.elestimulo.com/nueve-muertos-deja-operativomilitar-para-ubicar-al-coqui-y-lucifer/. See also Radio Mundial, Abatidos 9 delincuentes al enfrentar a
la OLP en Caracas, 11 May 2016, available at: http://www.radiomundial.com.ve/article/abatidos-9delincuentes-al-enfrentar-la-olp-en-caracas.
Statement made by C4FF15 in an interview with a Venezuelan citizen security expert No. 5, on file
with the Mission.
Ibid.
YouTube Video, Observatorio Venezolano de Seguridad Ciudadana OVS, OLP Municipio La Guajira
Estado Zulia Parte II 09/08/15, from minute 0:27, 9 August 2015, available at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaUSNlh4y4c.
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