A/HRC/45/CRP.11 lie down on the living room floor, face down, with their hands behind their backs. Some of the officers searched the house.2244 1260. Around 7 a.m., one of the officers ordered that C4FF13 and other female relatives be taken into custody, escorting them on foot from the house through an alleyway. C4FF13 told the Mission that when she left the house the young men were still lying on the living room floor. Once she was a few metres from the house, she heard gunshots. Upon hearing the gunshots, the police officers escorting them began to shoot into the air. They also made calls on a radio, and she heard them say there was a confrontation and requested support. 2245 1261. As events were unfolding, a male relative living a short distance away attempted to reach the house. He was unable to do so as police were restricting access to the sector. From his position at the police roadblock, he was able to see the house and he saw officials taking the oldest brother up to the top floor. When he was able to move past the roadblock and reach the house, he asked a police officer about the young men. The agent replied that one had gone to school while the other was still in the house. The police would not let him inside. 2246 1262. According to C4FF13, the oldest brother was killed in one of the rooms on the top floor, where bullet holes were found on the mattress, while the youngest brother was killed in the living room, where his relatives, who had access the house at around 3 p.m., found a pool of blood. C4FF13, citing the forensic report, explained to the Mission that the youngest brother was shot in the abdomen and chest area and the oldest was shot twice in the chest. 1263. Both died from hypovolemic shock due to the passage of a bullet through the chest. Their parents later found them that afternoon, in the Coche Hospital, neither with signs of life. C4FF13 returned home at around 3 p.m., where she alleges police officers were stealing money and household items. When she objected, a female agent returned a black bag containing her blender, coffee maker, Nintendo and some sheets. Another agent ran away with her money. Later, C4FF13 realized that a camera, clothes, cutlery sets, a wallet, a mobile phone, a watch, a wifi router and a computer monitor were also missing. The walls had also been damaged, seemingly to remove lodged bullets. 2247 Findings 1264. Based on the facts above, the Mission has reasonable grounds to believe that extrajudicial executions were committed against C4FF24 and that C4FF11 and that members of his family were victims of an arbitrary detention. Caracas based PNB Anti-Drug officers were involved in these violations. The Mission has reasonable grounds to believe that extra judicial executions were committed against the two young brothers during the same operation. III. A Other extrajudicial executions by police forces Numbers of Killings 1265. As noted above, under the 1999 Constitution,2248 the civilian security forces consist of the uniformed national police corps; the scientific, criminal and criminological investigation corps (CICPC); a civilian fire department and emergency management corps; and a civil defence and disaster management organization.2249 The 2008 Organic Law on the Police 2244 2245 2246 2247 2248 2249 Mission Interview C4FF13 in May 2020. Ibid. Ibid. Asociación Control Ciudadano, Violaciones de Derechos Humanos 2017. Caso de derechos humanos violaciones en El Valle, 28 February 2017, available at: http://www.controlciudadano.org/coyuntura/violaciones-de-derechos-humanos-2017-casoviolaciones-de-ddhh-de-la-olp-en-el-valle. Under article 55 of the 1999 Constitution, the State security forces are required to respect human rights and the use of arms is limited by the principles of necessity and proportionality, among others. Constitution 1999, art. 332. 247

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