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(CNN Spanish) - The president of Paraguay, Mario Abdo Benítez, announced on Wednesday on his Twitter account that he accepted the resignation of the Minister of Justice, Julio Javier Ríos, and ordered the relief of the commander of the National Police, Walter Vázquez, after the ambush of this same day in which the deputy chief of the first metropolitan police station died.
An ambush starring armed men managed to release a prisoner Wednesday who was transported from the courts to jail by the National Police of Paraguay on a highway in Asunción. In the attack, Commissioner Félix Ferrari died and three others were injured, according to Interior Minister Juan Ernesto Villamayor.
The director of Corrections, Carlos Figueredo, said that the fugitive is a narco chief named Jorge Teófilo Samudio González, aka "Samura."
The inmate, considered highly dangerous, was rescued by armed men in the middle of a shooting. Samudio had attended the judiciary for a hearing in his case for drug trafficking and the attack was perpetrated on the way back to jail, in the coastal area of the capital, Asunción.
Samudio had been detained since October 2018.
The director of Correctional Institutions added that the fugitive belongs to the criminal group of Brazilian origin Comando Vermelho. According to the National Anti-Drug Secretariat, Jorge Teófilo Samudio González is one of the main leaders of this organization in Paraguay, specialized in trafficking drugs and weapons.
The government of Argentina sympathized with Paraguay for the death of Ferrari and called to condemn all types of violence.