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| Clothes are seen in a tunnel entrance at Pedro Juan Caballero city jail in Paraguay, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2020. Dozens of inmates escaped from this prison early morning, mostly of Brazil's criminal group PCC, "Capital First Command." |
Some 76 prisoners from
a prison in the Paraguayan city of Pedro Juan Caballero, bordering Brazil,
escaped this Sunday through a tunnel they dug for weeks, police said Sunday.
These are 40 Brazilians and 36 Paraguayans, mostly from the same criminal group
dedicated to drug trafficking.
"The escape
occurred early Sunday through a tunnel built" by the inmates that started
in one of the internal toilets, said police spokeswoman, Commissioner Elena
Andrada. "Our best men moved to the border to try to recapture the
escapees."
"There are only 25
meters between the tunnel and the nearest gatehouse (of guards)," he said ,
assuring that only one inmate was unable to escape and that hundreds of bags of
soil were found during the first review of the site.
Most of the escapees
are members of the largest gang of drug traffickers - cocaine - and weapons
from Brazil, known as First Capital Command (PCC). In the flight they used five
vans that were later found on fire in Ponta Porá, a city on the Brazilian side
of the border separated from Paraguay just by an avenue. And among the
escapees, the heaviest inmate was one of the leaders of the cartel, named David
Timoteo Ferreira, who had been in custody since 2017.
"It is an
unprecedented escape ... It is a work of several weeks. It is evident that the
staff knew and did nothing," criticized the Minister of Justice of
Paraguay, Cecilia Pérez, who said she believes that criminals already crossed
to Brazil and classified them as "high danger". "This is very
serious". He added.
As a result, the prison
director was dismissed and 28 prison guards arrested. "There is a strong
suspicion that officials are involved in the corruption scheme," Pérez
added.
I'd shit my pants too, if I had to crawl through that.
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That's right: dismiss the officer in charge and arrest the low-level guards!!! Clear sign of corruption even higher up.
ReplyDeleteThe Brazilian presidente is corrupt, burns the Amazonia as if it was his right and his property, sure loves his millions of dollars and has been in on it with cartels since birth.
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