a statement given to State authorities, Wilmer Antonio Barliza González stated that, on January 28, 1999, while he was in the street, members of the F. family began to shoot and, therefore, he and the one or more persons who were with him took refuge in the house of his aunt.50 He added that a woman, L.F., arrived, together with an “Intelligence Commission,” who searched the house. He stated that she carried a bag from which she took out two firearms that she planted beside the house and then called the police, indicating the firearms and saying that they belonged to Wilmer Antonio Barliza and the other persons who were with him.51 Mr. Barliza González did not say precisely who was with him but from the statements that were given, it can be deduced that they were Luis Guillermo González52 and Olimpiades González. 49. On January 29, 1999, the Intelligence Section of the Police issued a document “referring” Wilmer Antonio Barliza González, Luis Guillermo González and Olimpiades González, as well as the two firearms and a toy pistol, to the Head of the TJP, indicating as “grounds” that the firearms “are related” to file “No. F-282-189, of 23-11-98, for one of the crimes against persons.”53 That same day, the “Investigations Section” of the TJP issued a document indicating that “existing evidence that presumes the participation” of the three detainees in the events relating to the aforementioned file, “in the opinion of this Office,” the “preventive detention should be continued” pursuant to Article 45 of the Law of Amparo for a period not to exceed eight days, in view of the terms of Article 75 of the CCP.54 Neither of those two documents refer to the facts stated in the previous paragraph. 50. On February 5, 1999 Luis Guillermo González, Wilmer Antonio Barliza and Olimpiades González requested that the First Court either prosecute them or release them under bail.55 51. On February 9, there was a lineup but there is no detailed information on what occurred.56 the representatives, but in its answering brief, in referring to the detention, acknowledged what was in the other police document, also of January 29, that is indicated later (infra para. 49). According to the statement of Dan William Barliza González, that aunt is the mother of Olimpiades González (cf. Oral statement of Dan William Barliza González before the Court). 50 51 Cf. Statement of Wilmer Antonio Barliza of February 10, 1999. Cf. Minutes of the statement of February 10, 1999 (evidence file, Annex 5 of the Merits Report, fs. 134, 135, 137 and 139). 52 Cf. Communication OGP.DIP-Nr. 1174, sent on January 29, 1999 by the Intelligence Divsion of the Police of Zulia to the Head of the TJP. 53 Investigation Section of the TJP, Delegation of Zulia, Minutes of January 29, 1999 (evidence file, Annex 5 of the Merits Report, f. 123). 54 This fact was pointed out by the Commission and the representatives and not directly disputed by the State. The documentary evidence only contains the request of Olimpiades González (Statement of Olimpiades González before the First Court of February 5, 1999 (evidence file, Annex 5 of the Merits Report, f. 131)). 55 The document in which this act appears, provided as documentary evidence, is incomplete (cf. Minutes of February 9, 1999, evidence file, Annex 5 to the Merits Report, f. 133). The lineup was then “contested” by Olimpiades González, Luis Guillermo González and Wilmer Antonio Barliza González (cf. Writ of impugnation, without a date and incomplete, evidence file, Annex 5 of Merits Report f. 136). There is no information on how this was resolved. 56 15