Armed group threatens to kill Ecuador’s attorney general and daughter

An armed group threatened to kill Ecuador’s attorney general, Diana Salazar, and her daughter on Thursday and demanded that she step down after prosecuting top officials, including former president Rafael Correa, on corruption charges.

In the viral video Twitter Other social networks and at least six men appear with their faces covered and carrying rifles and machine guns, one of them warns: “Your birthday is coming up, I don’t want to kill your daughter and ruin your party. I’ll make you cry and suffer before I kill you.”

According to a screenshot first released by the prosecutor’s office, the threat came to Salazar’s phone early Thursday.

In 2017, Salazar also received threats while investigating the Odebrecht case, but not to this extent.

“Criminal gangs and their terrorist activities threatening the life of a state official and seeking control of justice institutions cannot be tolerated,” he published. Twitter President Guillermo Lazo and insisted that the government should involve itself in the defense of democracy. “My support and integrity to the Attorney General… the police will provide all necessary security,” he added.

“It has mobilized the best investigative units to work with the prosecutor’s office to identify those responsible for these threats,” the force said.

“We cannot normalize violence when the family of a brave lawyer facing strong corruption charges is at risk,” Interior Minister Juan Zapata was quoted as saying in the organization’s statement.

He said that investigative teams have been activated to work on various lines of investigation and strengthen and strengthen the security of the lawyer and his relatives.

In a statement, the prosecutor’s office rejected “any act of intimidation” and called on citizens, the government and the international community to “be vigilant against any attempt to capture this institution by any means at any cost.”

Salazar this week denounced “aggressive efforts” to remove him from office by the Council for Citizen Participation, a body that administers justice and the Council for Citizen Participation, led by Alembert Vera, a Correa lawyer in several corruption cases.

The first of these organizations called a meeting Monday night to discuss the disciplinary file against Salazar and possible sanctions, but was unsuccessful.

The second has called her on Friday to hear and act on complaints of plagiarism of the officer’s thesis presented by two citizen groups.

Neither the Constitution nor the laws in Ecuador allow the Judiciary or the Council to supervise or authorize the Attorney General.

German Rodas, coordinator of the non-governmental National Anti-Corruption Commission, told the AP agency that “there is a concerted action by some departments to prevent the granting of permits to certain individuals linked to corruption,” and called the prosecutor’s office. Face the threats and continue your work.

Salazar says the persecution against him is fueled by those seeking impunity, those deprived of liberty or fugitives from justice. Imprisoned former state comptroller, Pablo Celi; Former ombudsman, Freddy Garion, was jailed for sexual abuse and prosecuted other senior officials of the Korean government (2007-2017) during his tenure as head of the Attorney General’s Office.

Korea posted on his account Twitter “This woman (Salazar) is crazy. There is little left between other comments to disqualify her.” Salazar has a year and 10 months left in her term.

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