A/HRC/45/CRP.11 1111. The operation was activated via land and lake,1977 as officers from difference forces moved in 30 police and military vehicles, CPBEZ motorcycles and 4 GNB boats. 1978 The GNB implemented a perimeter ring of checkpoints. The CPBEZ units acted inside this area. The CICPC was responsible for obtaining and preserving information where violent deaths occurred.1979 1112. A female relative of the victims, C4FF06, was at her residence in Urbanización la Victoria during the early morning of 14 September 2015. Someone told her that there were police officers at her relatives’ home, so she headed there. She managed to get to within 300 metres of the house, evading at least five GNB checkpoints that prevented access to the Santa Rosa sector.1980 1113. Along the way, she saw several officials with long weapons, some located on the roofs of houses. When she asked officers at a security cordon what was happening, they told her were implementing the OLP under presidential decree. A male GNB official told her she was being “pig-headed”, meaning stubborn, and told another official to find a female officer to beat her up and put her in jail. She retreated out of fear of being hurt or arrested. 1981 1114. The day after the operation, Mayor General Sánchez Vargas announced that the five dead were dangerous individuals, killed in a confrontation with police. He said they belonged to the criminal gang “Los Chatarreros”1982 involved in robberies, car thefts and extortion. 1983 He conceded that four of the five had no criminal record.1984 The Death of Two Brothers 1115. C4FF19 and C4FF20 were part of a middle-class family of five brothers.1985 They had no criminal records according to the Police Investigation and Information System (SIIPOL).1986 1116. At around 4 a.m. on 14 September 2015, three CPBEZ vehicles stopped outside the brothers’ house. Four DIEP officers arrived in a white Toyota. Three more police officers from the West Maracaibo Department arrived on motorcycles. Another two DIEP officers served as support in the operation.1987 1117. A female victim and eyewitness, C4FF17, told national authorities that she was in C4FF20’s house when they heard gunshots and the sound of glass breaking at around 4 a.m. They hid in the bathroom and telephoned a relative, asking him to seek help from the police. When they opened the bathroom door, they saw 20-30 men in uniform, carrying long weapons with lasers and guns. They were dressed in black with bulletproof vests, with white lettering on their arms. According to C4FF17, they were CPBEZ rapid response officers.1988 [He] was told to get down on the floor and crawl into the living room [...]. They threw him on the furniture where he sat in his underwear. He was unable to defend himself, he had just got out of bed. They grabbed me wildly by the hair, dragged me through the house and pushed 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 Mission Interview C4FF05 in June 2020. See also Versión Final, 410 “sabuesos” toman Santa Rosa, p. 32, available at: https://issuu.com/versionfinal/docs/d2494. Document C4FF03 on file with the Mission. See also Versión Final, 410 “sabuesos” toman Santa Rosa, p. 32, available at: https://issuu.com/versionfinal/docs/d2494. Mission Interview C4FF05 in March 2020. Audiovisual document by C4FF05 on file with the Mission. Document C4FF03 on file with the Mission. Members of the gang were allegedly alerted the night before the operation by an informant they had inside the police and left the area in the early morning of 14 September 2015. Mission Interview C4FF05 in June 2020. CPBEZ PNB, Comisión mixta dio de baja a cinco miembros de la banda “Los Chatarreros”, 15 September 2015, available at: https://www.facebook.com/cpbez.gbz/photos/a.859986000738461/957646460972414/?type=3. Diario La Verdad, La matanza policial se extiende a Santa Rosa, 15 September 2015, available at: http://www.laverdad.com/sucesos/82857-la-matanza-policial-se-extiende-a-santa-rosa.html. Mission Interview C4FF06 in June 2020 and document C4FF03 on file with the Mission. Document C4FF03 on file with the Mission. Ibid. Documents C4FF26 and C4FF03 on file with the Mission. 219