In a statement, the judge said that “prison authorities were instructed not to release him due to pending cases,” but the perpetrator was arrested in Mexico and deported to the United States.
In his message to the “falsifiers of the truth and those who defend it,” Salazar explained that he was a judge against organized crime for 15 years, during which time he “convicted, acquitted and denounced officials of current and former public administrations.” , politicians and all kinds of gang members.”
“I certified and ordered the existence of crimes committed by corrupt authorities and other forms of organized crime, which I then classified as “political gangsters,” he explained.
In Canales’ case, the lawyer said, he was sentenced to 60 years in prison, but a higher court reduced the sentence to 40 years and ordered his release because the term of imprisonment exceeded 24 months.
Given this situation, prison authorities have been instructed not to release him because, among other things, cases of extortion are pending, Salazar added.
The authorities never responded to these demands and remained silent, he said, pointing out that it needed to be clarified why a convicted person with a pending case was evading the law and being released without consultation, which is “unusual in the prison reality.” .
This week, El Salvador’s capture of MS13 gang leader “Crook” on November 8 in Tapachula, Mexico made headlines.
According to the newspaper El Mundo, the perpetrator is one of the 14 gang members who were accused of terrorism in a court in New York, USA, on January 14, 2021.
According to the classification of Salvadoran law, the terrorist is one of the twelve leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha, which formed the national Ranfla, the high command of the feared gang that has caused terror in El Salvador in recent decades.
“Crook,” 47, was arrested after serving a 10-year sentence for solicitation and conspiracy for aggravated murder and a further 30 years for aggravated murder.
According to journalists who had access to the files, he has been imprisoned since 2000 and his sentence has not yet expired, El Mundo noted.
The media state that the inmate was taken from the maximum security prison in Zacatecoluca, in the department of La Paz, where he was serving his sentence, without specifying how he violated justice and how he spent a few days in a luxurious one Apartment lived in San Salvador, from where he was allegedly taken out of the country by a government official.
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