More than 1,300 detainees rise to more than 1,300 in Ecuador after five days of "armed conflict" with gangs

MADRID, 15 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Presidency of Ecuador has increased the number of detainees to 1,327 since last January 9, when the "armed conflict" was declared against the gangs due to the spiral of violence and security that affects the country and that has led the Army to consider as "military objectives" to the members of these criminal gangs.

Since then, the authorities have carried out 12,974 operations - 32 of them against "terrorist groups" - framed in the so-called Féniz Plan, in which two police officers have died and in which five criminals, now considered as criminals, have been killed. "terrorists", as published by the Ecuadorian Presidency on its account on the social network X, formerly Twitter.

The joint work between the Army and the Police has already resulted in the release of eleven police officers who had previously been kidnapped and 201 prison officials, who had been detained after a series of riots in different prisons.

In the same period, there have also been ten attacks against police infrastructure and thirteen attacks against public and private infrastructure. 491 firearms, 268 knives, 14 boats, 343 vehicles, 462 explosives, 10,241 rounds of ammunition, 195 motorcycles, 135 mobile phones, 5,319.1 kilograms of drugs, 2,755 gallons of fuel and $2,075.5 in cash have been seized. cash.

Since last January 8, Ecuador has been experiencing a security crisis in which there were initially 170 people kidnapped in seven prisons in the country and which has forced its president, Daniel Noboa, to declare a state of exception due to the existence of a " internal armed conflict".