71. On June 16, 2005, the proceeding to reconstruct the events could not be carried out because the Chief Commissioner of the CICPC, the expert surveyor of the CICPC of Falcón, and the police and witnesses did not appear.94 72. On July 29, 2005, the Seventh Prosecutor summoned the seven police officers as witnesses to appear for the reconstruction of the events and the survey of the scene of the incident.95 In December 2005, Luis Uzcátegui96 and three police officers filed statements before said Prosecutor’s Office.97 73. On August 5, 2005, Commander General Rodríguez León notified the Seventh Prosecutor that the weapons assigned to the officers who participated in the operation of January 1, 2001, had been forwarded to the Criminal Investigations Corps for expert ballistic tests.98 74. On August 9, 2005, the Seventh Prosecutor asked the Chief of the CIPC to carry out, among other procedures, expert ballistic tests on the weapons carried by the police officers on the day of the incident and the site survey.99 75. On August 15, 2005, Gleimar C. Uzcátegui Jiménez and Paula Yulimar Uzcátegui rendered statements before the Seventh Prosecutor’s Office. 100 76. On October 5, 2005, the CICPC forwarded the survey to the Seventh Prosecutor.101 77. On October 11, 2005, the Chief of the Recovered Objects Unit of the CICPC and the Seventh Prosecutor drafted a formal document recording the fact that the evidence in the case was contained in two bags, one of which was in very poor state, since “the evidence inside it was wet and compacted, which prevented its identification.”102 94 Cf. Report of June 16, 2005, signed by the Seventh Prosecutor of the Public Prosecutor’s Office, State of Falcón and the Fifth Prosecutor of the Metropolitan Area of Caracas (Evidence file, volume 1, page 368). 95 Official letter FAL-7-641-05 addressed to Oswaldo Rodríguez León, Commander General of the Armed Police Forces of the State of Falcón, signed by Attorney Roldán di Toro Méndez, Seventh Prosecutor of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the State of Falcón (Evidence file, volume 1, page 369). 96 Statement of Luis Enrique Uzcátegui Jiménez before the Seventh Prosecutor of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the State of Falcón, on December 6, 2005 (Evidence file, volume 1, page 377). 97 Records of hearings held on December 7, 2005 before the 126th Prosecutor of the Metropolitan Area of Caracas with jurisdiction on matters related to the protection of Fundamental Rights, statements rendered by José Rodríguez Valdemar, Juan Alexander Rojas Reyes and Nelson Gregorio Saavedra, Deputy Inspectors attached to the Armed Police Forces of the State of Falcón (Evidence file, volume 1, page 379). 98 Official letter No. 001240 of the Directorate of Investigations of the General Headquarters of the Armed Police Forces of the State of Falcón to the Seventh Prosecutor of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the State of Falcón, signed by Commander General Oswaldo Rodríguez León (Evidence file, volume 1, page 370). 99 Official letter No. FAL-7-0665-05 of August 9, 2005, signed by Attorney Roldán Di Toro Méndez, Seventh Prosecutor of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the State of Falcón (Evidence file, volume 1, page 371). 100 Statement of Gleimar C. Uzcátegui Jiménez before the Seventh Prosecutor of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the State of Falcón of August 15, 2005 and Official letter FAL-7-699-05 of August 26, 2005, addressed to The Attorney General and signed by the Seventh Prosecutor of the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the State of Falcón (Evidence file, volume 1, pages 373 a 376). 101 Cf. Official letter Nº 9700-060 signed by Pedro Requena, Chief Commissioner of the Sub-delegation of Coro, State of Falcón (Evidence file, volume 1, page 372). 102 Report signed on October 11, 2005 in Santa Ana de Coro by the Head of the Recovered Objects Unit of the Scientific Penal and Criminal Investigations Corps, Coro branch office, Sub-Inspector Francisco J, Añez A., and the Seventh Prosecutor of the State of Falcón, Mario S. Molero R. Attachment to the petitioners’ brief 20