A/HRC/45/CRP.11 The Criminal Investigation 1124. The brothers’ female relative, C4FF06, filed a complaint with the CICPC in Zulia about the deaths on 14 September 2015. As she did so, CICPC officers threatened her, saying to “leave it at that, because the family was very big and she should think about those who were left”.2001 In September 2017, C4FF06 filed a complaint with the Third Court of Maracaibo against the CPBEZ officers that she accused of intimidating her by loitering near her home, asking neighbours about her and tracking her family’s vehicle. 2002 1125. The threats received did not manage to intimidate victims in their search for justice. Given the importance of the case, the Seventy-Sixth Public Prosecutor’s Office with National Competence supported the local Forty-Fifth Prosecutor’s Office in the investigation.2003 1126. On 20 October 2016 and 11 November 2016, hearings were held and four CPBEZ agents were charged with aggravated homicide,2004 misuse of service weapons2005 and simulation of a punishable act.2006 The events in Santa Rosa de Agua were reported by the CPBEZ to the CICPC’s Zulia Homicide Division as having occurred in the context of an exchange of fire. According to two officers who participated in the operation, no injuries or deaths were reported among the security agents. 2007 1127. One mid-ranking CPBEZ officer told the CICPC investigation that the OLP was carried out by mixed units of the GNB, CICPC, and CPBEZ, as decreed by the President. 2008 While passing a house in a vehicle he and his fellow officers saw two men who, upon seeing the police, ran inside the brothers’ house.2009 1128. The same CPBEZ officer told the investigation that three West Maracaibo Department police officers and a DIEP officer were fired upon as they entered the house and had to return fire to protect themselves and others.2010 Officers provided conflicting accounts as to where the two men’s bodies fell after having been shot. A police officer stated that one of the victim fell in the backyard of the house, while the other brother was shot in the outer alley. This officer’s supervisor stated that one of the deceased fell to the ground in front of the garage, while the other victim received the fatal injury outside, behind the house. 2011 1129. Technical and scientific tests carried out during the CICPC investigation established that the brothers were not shot where the police claimed. A luminol test and haematological analysis carried out by the CICPC indicated that C4FF20 was killed inside his house, 2012 validating the family’s belief that he was executed in his living room, next to the kitchen, and later dragged outside through the kitchen door. The CICPC investigation also showed that C4FF19 was shot outside the house in the alleyway that leads to an outside bathroom located in the courtyard of the house. A family member also told the Mission that they believe agents had tampered with the crime scene in the house.2013 1130. Both bodies arrived at the hospital with no signs of life. One of the doctors working at Pons Hospital told the Public Prosecutor’s Office that several unidentified patients, all of them lifeless and with gunshot wounds, were admitted that day, brought by CICPC officials. The doctor recalled that some arrived in jeans, others only in a sweater, most were barefoot. They were sent directly to the morgue.2014 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Document C4FF04 on file with the Mission. Ibid. Mission Interview C4FF05 in June 2020. Criminal Code, art. 405 and ff. Criminal Code, art. 277-283. Law for Disarmament and Control of Arms and Ammunition, art. 115. Criminal Code, art. 239. Document C4FF03 on file with the Mission. Document C4FF03 on file with the Mission. Ibid. Ibid. Ibid. Ibid. Document C4FF03 on file with the Mission. Mission Interview C4FF06 in June 2020. Document C4FF03 on file with the Mission. 221