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Inmates carried out excesses inside the enclosure.
After the new massacre that left 20 inmates murdered in the Turi prison in Cuenca, five leaders of criminal gangs will be transferred to the ‘La Roca’ prison in Guayaquil, as confirmed by the Interior Minister, Patricio Carrillo.
The five leaders of the Los Lobos and R7 gangs, responsible for the riot on Sunday, April 3, will be taken to Guayaquil this Monday and with that the reopening of this maximum security prison that was closed in 2013 is made official. They will be the first to occupy this center.
“It cannot be that we are subject to them, instead of the State subjecting them,” said Carrillo in a new press conference given this Monday. “The provision of the President of the Republic It has been to reactivate a maximum security center where these five leaders of organizations will be transferred under a completely different treatment and disciplinary regime, “emphasized the authority.
We are not going to stop until we win the war to preserve democracy, the rights, and the freedoms of Ecuadorians. As a Government, we will not allow the impartiality of the law to continue to be eroded, and the dignity of the human being to be undermined. pic.twitter.com/abGvAOSIxJ
– Patricio Carrillo (@CarrilloRosero) April 4, 2022
The minister did not specify the names of the leaders and indicated that he does not rule out that this mobilization could have repercussions on new rebellions in other rehabilitation centers. “We do not rule out the possibility that this generates reactions in other centers where several of the groups involved are; that is, Los Lobos and R7, so we have taken some measures, but irrationality can reach those levels and we are going to react in the same way, ”he said.