In the last two months, authorities in El Salvador have released 456 people who had been provisionally detained for allegedly belonging to criminal gangs, within the framework of the state of exception approved by the Salvadoran National Assembly with which the president of the country, Nayib Bukele, intends fight gangs.
This was reported this Thursday by the attorney general of El Salvador, Rodolfo Delgado, who has detailed that many of the people have been released after their first trial took place since "they were not gang related"as reported in an interview with Channel 10 collected by ‘La Prensa Gráfica’.
Delgado has ensured that all captures made by the country’s authorities are plannedyes ok, "on multiple occasions" arrests would have been made "under deceit, without foundations and arrest warrants".
"This is the result of each one of those actions, each one of those actions was part or was a piece of the puzzle that we are trying to build to generate better security conditions for Salvadorans"the Salvadoran attorney general has expressed in this regard.
On March 27, the Salvadoran Parliament approved the entry into force of the emergency regime throughout the country to combat the wave of homicides, which a day before left more than 60 dead. Crimes have been on the rise since the beginning of the year, and the president of El Salvador has promised to nip it in the bud.
In this way, the Salvadoran Government is empowered during this period to suspend certain freedoms and guaranteessuch as the presumption of innocence, as denounced by the UN last May to facilitate the deployment of soldiers and police in the streets and in the municipalities where these homicides occurred.
The National Civil Police confirmed this Thursday that since the approval of the state of emergency in March, almost 42,000 suspected gang members have already been arrested.
Of the total number of detainees, about eight thousand would still be waiting for the first hearingwhile more than 33,000 will continue to be detained under the state of exception for a period of up to six months, extendable for another six months to complete a year in the investigation process, according to Delgado.
