The investigation splits
It appears that the investigation team of 3 Fiscals into Fiscal Ceballos death by shooting will be issuing 2 reports - a majority report by two of them and a minority report by one of them who has split off from the main group. According to a source of El Nacional the main report will say that the weapon which caused the fatality was one with telescopic sights and that this type of weapon was not assigned to any of the police who were part of the group sent to arrest Fiscal Ceballos the night of his death. The Fiscal working alone is Dr. Vielka Calderon, Procuradora General of the Appeal Court in Santiago. She says she just wants to find out the truth and appears to be carrying out a parallel enquiry of her own. Read more here
El Nacional, la voz de todos
Meanwhile, the man who threatened the witness Teresa Acosta yesterday is still in a serious condition after neighbours beat him up. Last night doctors decided to do an emergency operation because he was still unconscious. There is a separate report in El Nacional
El Nacional, la voz de todos
The incident at Teresa Acosta's house was on national news last night. Looks like a lot of neighbours are forming a protection committee for her, despite the fact that she has police protection ( 3 officers per day each doing 8 hour shifts so one at a time).
If the majority report gets accepted I'm not certain what the reaction of the people of Sosua Abajo will be. All they know is that the Fiscal is dead and seemingly the finger is being pointed at someone
other than the arresting police and fiscals.
It points, yet again, to the need for an independent enquiry.