Ecuador: military and police sentenced until {twenty years in prison Bwamanda

The military garrison court Gemena (Ecuador), sitting in Bwamanda, delivered Sunday, June 7 sentences ranging from "one year to twenty years in prison against five police officers and a soldier of the naval force. These public hearings [outside the courthouse] were intended to send a clear message towards the people of South Ubangi, "men in uniform who behave like all powerful, are also defendants alongside n" any citizen . "
Five policemen and a soldier of the naval force were sentenced. A police officer was sentenced to Dongo "a year in prison for escape from" a highwayman, and chief of the dungeon under the Commission of Dongo, 18 months for complicity in the escape.
Another policeman Mbari prosecuted for manslaughter was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. He was killed last February his own son. The tragedy occurred when the police brawled with a demobilized who wanted to rob him of his gun. In "altercation, a ball is out of the trigger and killed the son of the policeman.
The strongest condemnation twenty years in prison, imposed the officer Jean-Florent Dawili. Already sentenced to three years in prison for embezzlement of seized property, he was convicted of "facilitating the" escape of two soldiers who were prosecuted for rape of minors in Dongo.
The locality of Bwamanda was chosen as the middle of where the alleged packages defendants were committed. For Captain Anicet Kalamba, president of the military court, the hearings were designed to show that the civilian population, "a police officer or a member may be prosecuted by justice for crimes committed as well as n" any citizen.
The President of the Gemena military court pleaded with the authorities to the "organization" other mobile courts in Zongo and Dongo, members of the armed forces must also appear .