The six Colombians involved in the assassination of Fernando Villavicencio murdered

A riot in the Litoral Penitentiary of Guayaquil, Ecuador) on Friday afternoon October 6 ended with the death of six inmates who were identified as the six Colombians accused of the assassination of Fernando Villavicenciopresidential candidate of that country murdered on August 9, less than two weeks before the first electoral round took place when he was leaving a rally in the north of the Ecuadorian capital, Quito.

This was reported by the National Comprehensive Care Service for Adults Deprived of Liberty and Adolescent Offenders (Snai) in your account x, pointing out that the six murdered prisoners are those accused of the assassination of the candidate for the Construye Movement. “The National Government condemns this fact and ratified its political will to collaborate with the pertinent investigations in order to identify those intellectually responsible for the former candidate’s crime,” they expressed in the document.

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Citing prison sources, Time reported that it appears that the six inmates who lost their lives in the riot were hanged. For its part, the citizen organization SOS Prisons Ecuador He noted that the six hitmen had requested a transfer to a more secure prison and had been denied. They also reported, citing reports from prison guards, that the bodies “do not show signs of torture, nor wounds resulting from any combat.”

It is worth remembering that the six Colombians were transferred to said penitentiary after the maximum security prison of The rock was attacked with a drone carrying explosives last September 12.

Hours after learning of the events in Litoral, the president Guillermo Lasso who was on tour in the USA and was preparing to head towards South Korea, gave orders to meet the Security Cabinet to find out the details of what happened during the riot. “Neither complicity nor cover-up, here the truth will be known,” the president wrote in his X account. Weeks ago during the Freedom and Democracy Foundation forum held in Buenos Aires (Argentina), the president asked for speed in the fight against the drug trafficking in Latin America. “Drug trafficking must be confronted decisively and unambiguously because, as all medical and scientific societies have ratified time and again, drugs destroy lives, families and dreams,” he declared.

Hours earlier, the entity reported that at 4:00 pm on Friday, October 6, “an event occurred inside the Guayas Male Deprivation of Liberty Center No. 1, pavilion 7, registering six people dead.” To regain control of the penitentiary center, the presence of “a Criminalistics team with the support of the Armed Forces and National Police” was necessary to carry out the investigations of the case, the removal of the bodies and their subsequent identification.

The massacre of the six Colombians occurs a week after Christian Zuritathe candidate who replaced Fernando Villavicencio in the first electoral round held on August 13, denounced that an attempt was made to murder his widow.

“Verónica Sarauz, wife of Fernando Villavicencio, has just suffered an attack,” said Zurita through her official X account. “Her security capsule detained a Venezuelan citizen on a motorcycle and with a firearm who tried to attack the car in that is mobilized,” he noted.

Although the Ecuadorian police described what happened in Quito as “an isolated procedure,” they reported the arrest of “a foreign citizen” who “was riding a motorcycle in a suspicious attitude, in the ecovía lane (designed for use by public buses). and he carried a blank weapon.”