Honduras cops arrested for 'tampering' in activist's murder probe
20 November 2017 - 22H58
TEGUCIGALPA (AFP) -
Honduran authorities on Monday arrested two policemen who allegedly tried to cover up the trail to those behind the 2016 murder of prominent environmental campaigner Berta Caceres, prosecutors said.
The officers, Juan Carlos Cruz and Miguel Arcangel Rosales, "are accused of the crime of tampering with evidence and presenting false evidence to divert the investigation," prosecutor's office spokesman Yuri Mora told AFP.
The two allegedly altered reports and recordings to cover for Caceres' killers. Murdered in her home in March 2016, Caceres was the head of an indigenous rights group trying to stop the construction of a hydro-electric dam on indigenous land.
The two policemen arrested on Monday had tried to make her killing look like a robbery or domestic dispute.
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http://www.france24.com/en/20171120-honduras-cops-arrested-tampering-activists-murder-probe
Google translation:
They capture police officers who falsified evidence in Berta Cáceres case
November 20, 2017
By: Editorial CRITERIO
redaccion@criterio.hn
Tegucigalpa.- The investigator Juan Carlos Cruz and the ex-policeman Miguel Arcangel Rosales Izcano, were captured in the last hours by the Honduran police accused of falsifying evidence in the crime of the environmentalist and indigenous leader, Berta Cáceres.
The capture was executed by agents of the Technical Agency of Criminal Investigation (ATIC) with the accompaniment of the Public Ministry through the Special Prosecutor for the Prosecution of Officials and Servants of the Justice Sector.
The police, who were assigned to the investigation of the environmentalist's crime, have been accused of the crime of disabling records destined to serve as a means of proof before a competent authority to the detriment of the public administration.
The crime for which Cruz and Rosales Izcano are accused is related to the first investigations into the murder of Cáceres, which were assigned to the detainees and which ultimately turned out to be false.
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http://criterio.hn/2017/11/20/capturan-policias-falsificaron-pruebas-caso-berta-caceres/