Utter swine! Police are stunned to find prisoners in Ecuador high-security prison are keeping pigs and fighting cocks
- Police and operatives were shown wheeling out two pigs from the prison
- Ecuador’s prisons for years have been plagued by poor conditions and violence
Security forces have confiscated pigs, fighting cocks and more than two dozen bladed weapons from an Ecuadorean prison.
The farm animals and weapons, among other items, were removed from a high-security wing of Bellavista prison in the city of Santo Domingo, the country’s military said on Friday.
Police and operatives of the SNAI prison authority were shown wheeling out two pigs from the prison in images shared by Ecuador’s military in a message posted on Twitter.
Some 12 fighting cocks and a dog were also removed, the military tweeted without saying how the animals ended up there.
As well as the animals, 26 bladed weapons, 16 electrical items, and a selection of other objects were also confiscated.
Two pigs were confiscated by members of Ecuador’s security forces in a high security jail, in Santo Domingo, Ecuador
Police and operatives of the SNAI prison authority were shown wheeling out two pigs from the prison in images shared by Ecuador’s military on Twitter
Ecuador’s prisons are plagued by poor conditions and violence, the latter leading to the deaths of hundreds of inmates.
Just two months ago at least 12 inmates were killed in one of the country’s jails amid a new clash between gangs.
The confrontation occurred in April in the prison known as La Penitenciaría, in the city of Guayaquil, one of the country’s most dangerous.
Ecuador has been plagued by prison riots since 2021, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of inmates, which the government attributes to clashes between drug gangs fighting for territory and control.
Last year, a United Nations delegation found that the violence in Ecuador’s prisons was caused by years of state neglect of the penitentiary system.
The existence of self-governance within Ecuador’s so-called mega prisons, including by inmates belonging to criminal gangs, has led to human rights violations, the UN said in a statement.
President Guillermo Lasso has struggled to address the growing violence in Ecuador, a country used as a transit point for cocaine moving to Europe and the United States.
Lasso, in May, dissolved the legislature and cut his term short to avoid impeachment proceedings against him after he was accused of corruption. He denies the charges.
Ecuador’s security forces confiscated animals and two dozen bladed weapons from a high-security wing of Bellavista prison in the city of Santo Domingo
Some 12 fighting cocks (pictured) and a dog were also removed, the military tweeted without saying how the animals ended up there
Eight candidates have since registered to run in the country’s presidential elections in August, the electoral court said on Wednesday, kicking off a campaign to fill the spot to be left early by Lasso.
Ecuadoreans will hit the polls on August 20 to vote for their new president as well as all members of the 137-seat Congress.
Those elected in August will hold office until May 2025, when regularly scheduled elections will take place.
Lasso and his party will not participate in the elections.
Source: Read Full Article