55. At approximately 2:45 a.m. on December 18, 2001, dozens of heavily armed police officers burst into the house located at No. 2319 Las Rosas Street. This is where Blas Valencia Campos lived with his wife, Norma Alarcón de Valencia, his children, Edwin, Claudia, Gabriel and Alexis, and his grandson, Claudio, the last two aged 11 years and 3 years respectively at the time of the events. Elacio Peña Córdova was also in the house at the time. According to the statements made by the alleged victims, all those present in the house were beaten by the police officers, tied up and placed face down with their faces covered.34 56. The declarants also reported that the police officers struck the women in their private parts and threatened the children in front of their parents to force the latter to confess.35 Gabriel Blas Valencia Alarcón suffered an epileptic seizure while he was being beaten by the officers. The police failed to help him or provide him with medical attention; rather, they continued to beat him.36 57. During the raids, the police took money, jewelry and household appliances. Subsequently, it was alleged that the jewelry was never returned, even though it was unrelated to the case investigated;37 as a result, Norma Alarcón Valencia filed a request for its return before the district prosecutor on September 1, 2004.38 58. Alexis Eduardo Valencia Alarcón, who was 11 years old at the time of the events, indicated that, during the search, he was taken out of the house in his pajamas and without his parent’s permission, placed in the back of a patrol car and taken to the homes of Eladio Cruz and Patricia Gallardo Ardúz.39 B.2.2. Search of the houses located at Nos. 2523/2525 Presbítero Medina 59. At the time of the raid, Víctor Manuel Boggiano Bruzzón (also known as Juan Ramírez Ortega); Genaro Ahuacho Luna (also known as Walter Herrera Flores or Walter Herrera Ríos); Alfredo Bazán y Rosas (also known as José Miguel Abildo Díaz or Alberto Farfán), Mercedes Valencia Chuquimia, and Mauricio Valenzuela Valencia (16 years of age at the time40), were at No. 2525 Presbítero Medina. Cf. Statement by Blas Valencia Campos, undated (evidence file, folio 12756); affidavit made by Norma Lupe Alarcón on June 14, 2022 (evidence file, folio 12641); affidavit made by Claudia Valencia Alarcón on June 14, 2022 (evidence file, folio 12626); affidavit made by Gabriel Blas Valencia Alarcón on June 14, 2022 (evidence file, folio 12632); affidavit made by Alexis Valencia Alarcón on June 14, 2022 (evidence file, folio 12619). 34 35 Norma Lupe Alarcón indicated that “they pointed a gun at my grandson, Claudio Centeno, aged 3, threatening his mother, my daughter Claudia; they made my daughter Claudia Valencia, aged 22, bleed; in front of me, they kicked her so hard that they made her bleed between her legs leaving a stain on the floor of the corridor; my sons, Edwin Rodriguez Alarcón, aged 28, and Gabriel Valencia Alarcón, aged 19, were brutally beaten” (affidavit made by Norma Lupe Alarcón on June 14, 2022, evidence file, folio 12641). Claudia Valencia Alarcón indicated that: “[s]ome minutes later, a police officer lifted my head by the hair and showed me my son, Claudio Tito Centeno Valencia, aged 3; he pointed a gun at his head and told me to indicate where there was any money” (affidavit made by Claudia Valencia Alarcón on June 14, 2022, evidence file, folio 12627). 36 Cf. Affidavit made by Norma Lupe Alarcón on June 14, 2022 (evidence file, folio 12643); statement made by Claudia Valencia Alarcón on June 14, 2022 (evidence file, folio 12626) and affidavit made by Gabriel Blas Valencia Alarcón on June 14, 2022 (evidence file, folio 12632). 37 Cf. Certification of the Secretary of the First Sentencing Court of September 3, 2002, indicating that “[‘t]he First Sentencing Court has never ordered that the jewelry in question should remain in the custody of the prosecutors, or as seized evidence, or as any other actual measure” (evidence file, folios 1817 and 1818). 38 Cf. Brief submitted to the office of the La Paz district prosecutor by Norma Alarcón Valencia on September 1, 2004 (evidence file folios 1804 to 1808). 39 Cf. Affidavit made by Alexis Eduardo Valencia Alarcón on June 14, 2022 (evidence file, folio 12620). 40 Cf. Statement made by Mauricio Valenzuela Valencia during the public hearing. 17