His government Equatorial will deploy 3,600 police and military as reinforcements to “guarantee the safety” of all prisons of the country, announced on Friday (1/10) the Minister of Interior of the country Alejandra Vela.
The government will deploy “3,600 members of the national police and armed forces permanently and daily to all Ecuadorian prisons” in order to “guarantee security”, Vela said during a press conference in Quito, APE-MPE reports. , three days after the death of 118 detainees in Violent riots between gangs in a prison in Guayaquil (southwest).
Late last night, police announced that the death toll from this week’s incidents had risen to 118 from 116. Seventy-nine injured people are being treated in hospitals.
For its part, the SNAI Ecuadorian penitentiary wrote on Twitter that police were continuing to identify victims, as dozens of relatives of detainees gathered outside the Guayaquil morgue seeking information about their own.
Among them, Karen Zambrano, who spent three days outside the morgue to identify the body of her 23-year-old brother, whom she claims, based on a video posted on social media, was beheaded. Authorities say at least six victims have been beheaded.
“I feel pain, anger and helplessness. “I can not bury my brother even if I know he is dead,” said the 32-year-old woman.
Thanks to thousands of prisoners for decongesting prisons
At the same time, Ecuador plans to pardon up to 2,000 detainees in order to decongest the detention centers, after the violent riots with 118 dead, the worst uprising in the country’s prisons.
Bolivar Garson, director of the SNAI penitentiary service, said the government intends to prioritize the elderly, women and prisoners with disabilities and serious illnesses.
About 39,000 people are currently being held in Ecuadorian prisons, according to Garson.
As he explained, the recent riots were caused by “the battle for control between organized crime groups”.
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