Highlights: Ecuador: two suspects arrested in the investigation into the murder of prosecutor César Suarez. The police first identified the taxi driver who was driving the vehicle in which the hitmen were traveling. After being arrested, the suspect took them to a hotel where one of the alleged assassins was staying, then searched a house, where she seized a machine gun and two revolvers. The vehicle used in the attack was found completely burned, reports our correspondent in Quito, Eric Samson. Two to three members of the commando are still free.

Police arrested two men on Thursday suspected of murdering an anti-mafia prosecutor in Guayaquil. A crime which shows that the government is still far from having restored order in the country.

Ecuador: two suspects arrested in the investigation into the murder of prosecutor César Suarez

Police arrested two men on Thursday suspected of murdering an anti-mafia prosecutor in Guayaquil.

A crime which shows that the government is still far from having restored order in the country.

Ecuador: police operation on January 18, 2024 in regional prison No. 8 in Guayaquil, the day after the assassination in the same city of prosecutor Cesar Suarez.

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The police first identified the taxi driver who was driving the vehicle in which the hitmen were traveling.

After being arrested, the suspect took them to a hotel where one of the alleged assassins was staying, then searched a house, where she seized a machine gun and two revolvers.

The vehicle used in the attack was found completely burned, reports our correspondent in Quito,

Eric Samson

Two to three members of the commando are still free.

According to the prosecution, the hitmen were part of the

Chone Killers

gang , one of the most active gangs currently against the police with the

Tiguerones

and

Los Lobos

Also read: In the news: Ecuador in a “state of war” against drug traffickers

Investigators are looking into whether

murdered prosecutor César Suarez

was not trapped by a phone call that pushed him to leave his home without his usual escort while he was supposed to be working at home.

Attorney General Diana Salazar has requested that protection of her staff be strengthened and that court hearings now be conducted virtually.

This 42-year-old woman is at the origin of the vast Metastasis operation which led in December to the arrest of around thirty people, including judges and prosecutors, suspected of being involved in organized crime linked to drug trafficking. .

In 2020, a year after becoming the country's first black attorney general, Diana Salazar sued popular former president

Rafael Correa

(2007-2017) for corruption.

Also read: Ecuador: nearly 30 judges, prosecutors and police officers arrested for links to drug traffickers

Thursday morning, 1,500 police and soldiers intervened again in the regional prison of Guayaquil, searching the cells of the detainees gathered in the patios, proof that they do not yet really have control and that the gangs have not surrendered. weapons in Ecuador.

Ecuador: two suspects arrested in the investigation into the murder of prosecutor César Suarez

Ecuador: two suspects arrested in the investigation into the murder of prosecutor César Suarez

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