208. On August 9, 2004, Darelbis Carolina Barrios and Nestor Caudi Barrios appeared before the Twentieth Prosecutor to testify “voluntarily and spontaneously”; the latter indicated that three police officers were involved in the events that resulted in the death of Narciso Barrios. On August 10, 2004, the Senior Prosecutor received Nestor Caudi Barrios at a hearing, “who said he was being threatened by a group of police officials […], attached to the Guanayén Police Station,” because he had witnessed the death of Narciso Barrios.284 On September 23, 2004, the Victims’ Attention Unit advised that, on August 24, 2004, the Seventh Review Judge had granted a measure of protection for Nestor Caudi Barrios285 (supra para. 212). 209. In November 2004, the Twentieth Provisional Prosecutor asked the Investigation Unit to obtain, urgently, the investigations conducted into the events that involved the death of Narciso and Luis Alberto Barrios, and also asked the police headquarters of Aragua state to carry out several investigation procedures, some of which it reiterated subsequently.286 On November 18, 2004, the forensic department forwarded to the head of the Villa de Cura Police Station, the copy of the planimetric survey requested on December 17, 2003.287 Other procedures were also carried out in November.288 On December 1, 2004, the report of the forensic inspection and ballistic comparison carried out on the weapons was issued, which concluded that the five cartridge shells implicated had been shot by the rifle examined.289 210. On January 20, 2005, the Investigation Unit forwarded to the Twentieth Prosecutor the report on the forensic inspection, blood testing and ballistic comparison of a bullet. The report concluded that it contains “remains of a hemal nature,” but that it was not possible to determine the blood group owing to the negligible amount of material available; also, that the bullet had been fired by a weapon similar to the 9-mm caliber firearm provided under a memorandum of November 18, 2004.290 On February 10, 2005, the Twentieth Prosecutor forwarded a deformed fragment of metal to the forensic laboratory for forensic inspection and blood tests.291 284 Cf. Memorandum No. 05-FS-UAV-092-04 of the Victim’s Attention Unit of August 24, 2004 and aidemémoire of the Victim’s Attention Unit of August 20, 2004 (file of attachments to the answering brief, tome III, attachment 17, folios 5918 to 5920). 285 Cf. Memorandum of the Victim’s Attention Unit of September 23, 2004, supra note 143, folio 6031. 286 Cf. Notes No. 05-F20-0585-04, No. 05-F20-0602-04, No. 05-F20-0603-04 and No. 05-F20-0226-05 of the Twentieth Prosecutor of November 10 and 16, 2004, and February 10, 2005 (file of attachments to the answering brief, tome III, attachment 17, folios 6032, 6037, 6038 and 6070). 287 Cf. Memorandum of the Investigation Unit of November 18, 2004 (file of attachments to the answering brief, tome III, attachment 17, folio 6039). 288 Among them: (a) three police agents appeared before the Twentieth Prosecutor, who were also questioned for other incidents, such as the house searches, the acts of violence against, and the arrest of certain members of the Barrios family and the Ravelos family on June 19, 2004, and the death of Luis Alberto Barrios, and (b) information was provided that the firearms located at the Barbacoas Police Station had been made available to the Investigation Unit, cf. Testimony of Marcos Antonio Moreno Dota, Leomar José Rovira Mendez and Jose Luis Riascos Leon before the Twentieth Prosecutor on November 26, 2004; Note No. 050 of the Commander of the Public Order and Security Unit, “Antonio Jose de Sucre” Central Police Station of November 29, 2004 (file of attachments to the answering brief, tome III, attachment 17, folios 6052 to 6063 and 6064). 289 Cf. Note No. 9700-064-DC-5658.2004 of the Investigation Unit of December 1, 2004 (file of attachments to the answering brief, tome III, attachment 17, folios 6101 to 6103). 290 Cf. Report No. 9700-064-DC-407.05 of the Investigation Unit of January 20, 2005 (file of attachments to the answering brief, tome III, attachment 17, folios 6099 and 6100). 291 Cf. Note No. 05-F20-0225-05 of the Twentieth Prosecutor of February 10, 2005 (file of attachments to the answering brief, tome III, attachment 17, folio 6069). 71