The President of Honduras, Xiomara CastroEuropa Press
Announces “robust hand in prisons”
The President of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, has introduced this Sunday the intervention of the State within the penitentiary facilities after a number of riots have taken place through the weekend which have resulted within the dying of at the least one particular person and one other seven have been wounds.
“I do know in regards to the efforts of the Police and the Secretary of Security in lowering homicides and corruption, however I’m going to energetically intervene within the Penal Centers,” the president reported by way of her official profile on the social community Twitter.
Castro has maintained that “12 years (144 months) of raiding and collusion with drug trafficking maras gangs and private and non-private organized crime can’t be mounted in 12 months,” referring to his mandate.
The Honduran president publicizes the intervention in prisons after a sequence of riots
Xiomara Castro introduced the intervention of the prisons, after a sequence of shootings carried out by members of the gangs (MS-13) and Barrio 18 in 4 prisons. pic.twitter.com/mTZc2cOyG0
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“I’m going to place a robust hand and order within the prisons, till they’re reworked into penal rehabilitation facilities, not into crime and torture colleges like what I’ve inherited,” he asserted, noting that the intervention “will probably be harsh, however respectful of humanity “.
The latest riots have occurred concurrently on Sunday within the prisons of Támara, El Porvenir, Siria and Morocelí, when clashes between felony organizations came about.
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