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me out into the street. They were demanding [his] name and he answered ‘C4FF20.’ One of
them said ‘it is him’, while others said ‘it is not, it is not’, [...]. As I was crossing the gate to
leave the grounds, I heard some shots [...]. I turned around to try to re-enter the house but
they prevented me.1989
1118. The officers would not allow C4FF17 back into the house, so she waited outside. At
around 5.30 a.m., she saw a white CICPC pickup truck park in front of the house and leave
again shortly afterwards.1990 Upon re-entering the house at around 10 a.m., she noticed blood
traces leading from the living room to a larger puddle on the back door of the house; there
was also blood in the parking space outside the house. Before she managed to reach the
hospital, news that C4FF20 was a criminal gang member who had died in a confrontation
with the police was being broadcast on the radio.1991
1119. C4FF18 was in C4FF19’s house at 4.10 a.m. on 14 September 2015. Once informed
by phone about events at his brother’s house, C4FF19 left his house to get help. C4FF18
remained and later heard gunshots and knocking at the door, so she locked herself in the
bathroom.1992 When she opened the bathroom door, she found “many men, about 50 men, all
pointing at me [...]. There were many officers from different police agencies. They wanted
to get me out of the house and they were grabbing me by the arms, mistreating me”.1993 Some
officials were wearing beige and black, others were wearing blue pants with a light blue shirt
from the Regional Police, and others were wearing black flannel with navy blue jeans and a
black cap with yellow letters from the CICPC.1994
1120. C4FF18 was recovering from a leg operation and could not move easily, so instead of
taking her outside, the officers locked her in another room. She said, “Through the hole in
the handle I was seeing everything that they did; they went in, they came out, they knocked
down and broke everything that got in their way”.1995
1121. C4FF18 heard three shots. She believes that the first shot she heard was fired at
C4FF20’s house. She believes that the second shot was fired against the door of the courtyard
of her house. She heard the third shot 15-20 minutes after the second. She believes that it was
fired in the courtyard of her house. Immediately after hearing this shot, she heard C4FF19
moan.
1122. When C4FF18 managed to leave the house around five hours later, at about 9 a.m.,
she learned that the two brothers were both lying dead in the Pons Hospital. 1996 Several
neighbours claimed to have seen one of the two brothers alive when the officers took him
away in their vehicles.1997
1123. The dead men’s relatives reported that the officers who entered their homes stole their
belongings. One of them found the house was in complete disarray when she returned,1998
with electronic items, clothes and jewellery among the items missing. 1999 Another relative
also accused the officers of theft.2000
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Ibid.
Document C4FF03 on file with the Mission.
Ibid.
Documents C4FF18 and C4FF03 on file with the Mission.
Document C4FF03 on file with the Mission.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Document C4FF03 on file with the Mission.
Statement by a neighbour: “There were no confrontations. There was an execution [...] I am an
exceptional witness and I saw that they took one of them and later he appeared in the morgue and that
is really a criminal practice” in De Primera Mano TV, Vecinos de Santa Rosa de Agua denuncian
abuso policial, 15 September 2015, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnq571y9wsk. Another
neighbour told a relative of the family that from the balcony of his house he managed to see C4FF19
alive minutes before he was forced into the CICPC van. Mission Interview C4FF06 in June 2020.
Video of C4FF20’s house after the OLP, on file with the Mission.
Document C4FF03 on file with the Mission.
Ibid.
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