El Llaguno shooters declared innocent

September 19, 2003


 



The pictures above, which I have taken from Carlanga’s website, were taken last year on April 11th. This is a bridge called El Llaguno in downtown Caracas. A peaceful and unarmed opposition march was going under this bridge and these people began shooting and they were 19 deaths and over one hundred injured, it is all on tape, these are frames from a movie shown then live on TV. Some of those shooting were identified and brought to trial (It was not that simple, one judge freed them and the Supreme Court had to order them jail at one point). By the way two of the three on trial were officials of the Libertador Municipality representing Chavez’ MVR party.


Night before last, a judge declare these shooters .I understand the prosecutor is going to appeal, but only because the decision questioned his work. He also believed they were innocent. The judge’s argument? This was legitimate Defense and they were “under a state of necessity” and the accusation was “weak”. This is justice in the Vth. Republic.

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