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12 dead after intervention in Paraguay’s largest prison

December 19 |
The National Police of Paraguay indicated that the intervention executed on Monday in the national penitentiary of Tacumbú left a preliminary toll of 12 dead.
The dead left, so far, by the military police intervention in the most important penitentiary in the country are 11 inmates and a member of the National Police, belonging to the tactical group Lince.
The deceased officer was identified as the assistant sub-officer Martín Mendoza.
The Ministry of Health informed that it attended a total of 54 people injured during the operation who were referred to different health care centers, of which 14 are National Police officers and 40 persons deprived of their liberty.
In addition, another 40 people, including police officers, military personnel and inmates, were treated by mobile clinics set up outside the Tacumbú penitentiary, making a total of 94 injured people.
On the other hand, the Paraguayan State managed to recover the aforementioned prison, which was in the hands of the “Rotela Clan”, thanks to the mega-operation called “Veneratio”, an operation carried out by the Paraguayan National Police and the Military Forces.
In fact, Paraguayan authorities said that the leader and founder of the “Clan Rotela,” Armando Javier Rotela, was recaptured and transferred to the Viñas Cue military prison, located in Asunción.
It should be noted that Armando Javier Rotela had absolute control of the penitentiary from an exclusive wing where he ran the criminal organization of drug trafficking and other related crimes. He will now be placed in an isolation cell due to his high dangerousness, so he will not have contact with other inmates in the Viñas Cue military prison.
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