El Salvador’s police chief, Mauricio Arriaza Chicas, was killed in a helicopter crash together with a number of others on Monday, in keeping with the military.
Arriaza Chicas was main the nation’s strict anti-gang marketing campaign since March 2022, liable for the arrest of practically 82,000 suspected gang members with out warrants.
The Salvadoran air pressure helicopter, a UH-1H, crashed in Pasaquina, about 180 kilometers east of the capital, San Salvador.
The crash additionally took the lives of Manuel Coto, a former supervisor of the Cosavi credit score union who was underneath police custody, in addition to Deputy Director of Investigations Romulo Pompilio Romero, Corporal Abel Antonio Arevalo, and David Cruz, head of communications for the Justice Ministry.
The crew of the plane has not but been recognized. Lawyer Normal Rodolfo Delgado acknowledged that his groups are doing all the things potential to expedite the rescue and identification of the victims.
“We remorse to substantiate the loss of life of all these on board the UH-1H helicopter of the Salvadoran Air Power, which crashed in Pasaquina,” the navy stated on social media platform X.
Civil Safety tactical groups have been dispatched to the crash web site to offer help. President Nayib Bukele introduced he would search worldwide help to analyze the crash completely.
“What occurred can’t stay a mere ‘accident’, it should be investigated completely and to the final penalties. We’ll ask for worldwide help,” Bukele wrote on X. “Director Arriaza Chicas was a elementary piece in bringing peace and safety to our individuals.”
“We’ll examine this to the top, however nobody can deliver again our nationwide hero,” Bukele added.
Protection minister Rene Francis Merino Monroy described Arriaza Chicas as a major determine in remodeling the nationwide police pressure.
“Director Arriaza Chicas was a strategist who modified the course of the (nationwide police),” Merino Monroy wrote on X. “We’ll proceed fulfilling the mission till we obtain the nation you dreamed of.”
In honor of Arriaza Chicas, President Bukele ordered all flags within the nation, in addition to in El Salvador’s embassies and consulates, to fly at half-mast for 3 days.
Bukele’s rigorous crackdown on gangs has drawn criticism from rights teams however has garnered him excessive approval rankings from supporters who credit score him with restoring a way of normality to a violence-weary society.
Manuel Coto had been a fugitive for allegedly embezzling round $35 million.
He was arrested in Honduras on Sunday whereas “driving with a human trafficker to the USA,” earlier than being handed over to Salvadoran authorities by means of Interpol, Honduran safety minister Gustavo Sanchez confirmed on X.
Arriaza Chicas was main the nation’s strict anti-gang marketing campaign since March 2022, liable for the arrest of practically 82,000 suspected gang members with out warrants.
The Salvadoran air pressure helicopter, a UH-1H, crashed in Pasaquina, about 180 kilometers east of the capital, San Salvador.
The crash additionally took the lives of Manuel Coto, a former supervisor of the Cosavi credit score union who was underneath police custody, in addition to Deputy Director of Investigations Romulo Pompilio Romero, Corporal Abel Antonio Arevalo, and David Cruz, head of communications for the Justice Ministry.
The crew of the plane has not but been recognized. Lawyer Normal Rodolfo Delgado acknowledged that his groups are doing all the things potential to expedite the rescue and identification of the victims.
“We remorse to substantiate the loss of life of all these on board the UH-1H helicopter of the Salvadoran Air Power, which crashed in Pasaquina,” the navy stated on social media platform X.
Civil Safety tactical groups have been dispatched to the crash web site to offer help. President Nayib Bukele introduced he would search worldwide help to analyze the crash completely.
“What occurred can’t stay a mere ‘accident’, it should be investigated completely and to the final penalties. We’ll ask for worldwide help,” Bukele wrote on X. “Director Arriaza Chicas was a elementary piece in bringing peace and safety to our individuals.”
“We’ll examine this to the top, however nobody can deliver again our nationwide hero,” Bukele added.
Protection minister Rene Francis Merino Monroy described Arriaza Chicas as a major determine in remodeling the nationwide police pressure.
“Director Arriaza Chicas was a strategist who modified the course of the (nationwide police),” Merino Monroy wrote on X. “We’ll proceed fulfilling the mission till we obtain the nation you dreamed of.”
In honor of Arriaza Chicas, President Bukele ordered all flags within the nation, in addition to in El Salvador’s embassies and consulates, to fly at half-mast for 3 days.
Bukele’s rigorous crackdown on gangs has drawn criticism from rights teams however has garnered him excessive approval rankings from supporters who credit score him with restoring a way of normality to a violence-weary society.
Manuel Coto had been a fugitive for allegedly embezzling round $35 million.
He was arrested in Honduras on Sunday whereas “driving with a human trafficker to the USA,” earlier than being handed over to Salvadoran authorities by means of Interpol, Honduran safety minister Gustavo Sanchez confirmed on X.
