Where did the explosives used in the attack in Guayaquil come from?
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(CNN Spanish)
-- The Ecuadorian Prosecutor's Office initiated criminal proceedings on charges of hired assassins against two men for the murder of the People and Guarantees Prosecutor Édgar Escobar, which occurred this Monday.
The suspects, arrested minutes after the crime, were traveling on a motorcycle from where, says the Public Ministry, they shot prosecutor Escobar.
A Guayas criminal guarantees judge issued measures against the two suspects in the homicide.
For one of them he ordered preventive detention and requested his incarceration in the Litoral Penitentiary.
While for the other detainee - 16 years old - he asked a juvenile judge to resolve his legal situation.
The judge for juvenile offenders ordered the preventive internment of the minor and the transfer to the center for adolescent offenders in Guayaquil, according to the Prosecutor's Office in a statement.
The judge also ordered protection measures for the relatives of the murdered prosecutor, a complainant and a police officer who participated in the arrest of the two suspects.
The Ecuadorian National Police reported on Monday that they had captured two "alleged perpetrators of the violent death of the prosecutor", and that they had seized a firearm and a motorcycle allegedly used to commit the crime.
CNN contacted the Directorate of Communication of the Public Defender's Office, which indicated that both defendants have a public defender, although it was not specified how they declared themselves before the accusations.
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Faced with this new attack, the president of the Council of the Judiciary of Ecuador, Fausto Murillo, said on his Twitter account that on Wednesday he will hold a meeting with representatives of the Presidency and the Interior and Government ministries to make decisions on security. judicial employees, especially in criminal matters, where there is "the highest risk."
This Wednesday, September 21, starting at 09:00, we will hold a working meeting with the authorities of the National Government, to make decisions about the security situation of the judicial servants.
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– Fausto Murillo Fierro (@FaustoMurilloEC) September 20, 2022
The Attorney General of the State, Diana Salazar, highlighted for her part what appears to be a trend.
“I am deeply outraged by this new murder of a fellow prosecutor, the third so far this year.
The actions of delinquency will not stop the work of (the) Prosecutor's Office to combat crime in our country.
We demand guarantees and security to carry out our work,” he wrote on Twitter.
I am deeply outraged by this new murder of a fellow prosecutor, the third so far this year.
The actions of delinquency will not stop the work of the Prosecutor's Office to combat crime in our country.
We demand guarantees and security to carry out our work.
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– Diana Salazar M. (@DianaSalazarM2) September 19, 2022
The Government of Guayas, together with several judicial authorities of the province, met on Monday afternoon in a sit-in outside the Prosecutor's Office where the crime occurred to condemn the act and demand justice for the judicial servants.
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