Panama Police to
Investigate Executions
PANAMA - The Panamanian
Police will create a
special team to
investigate increase of
executions in mafia
style that the country
has experienced in the
last three months,
authorities announced.
Auxiliary Attorney Luis
Martinez told reporters
the police elite group
will be shaped by
experts of the Judicial
Investigation
Department, the Homicide
Division and the
Ministry of Justice.
The police keeps records
of around 20 murders
from June to the present
and most corpses were
found in isolated
places, shot in their
heads, tied up and with
signs of torture.
Government and Justice
Minister Daniel Delgado
Diamante holds that
there is direct relation
between those executions
and seizure by the
police of huge amounts
of drugs.
In just one operation on
August 5, police forces
seized 2,372 pounds of
cocaine and arrested six
Mexicans and two
Colombians, supposed
members of Golfo's
cartel, from the
northern country.
Panama is in the route
for illegal drug traffic
to the United States,
the world largest
market, and according to
official reports, over
26 tons of cocaine had
been seized until July. |
