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about the procedure followed in Guatemala in cases such as this, when it was
determined that the bullet belonged to a police arm, he indicated that,
according to law, the judicial authority would order the arrest of the suspect.
He stated that he interviewed three children who were at the scene of the
crime and also a woman who attended a food kiosk. However, no one could
identify the dead youth and no one said that they had directly seen the
perpetrator of the act. At that time, he concluded that some event might
have occurred among the children themselves that led to the crime.
He added that the persons who continued the investigation based on his
report did not inform him about subsequent findings or observations.
g.
Testimony of Delfino Hernández García, former expert in the
Identification Office of the National Police Force
He declared that in 1990 and 1991 he was an expert in the Identification
Office of the National Police Force.
On June 26, 1990, after midnight, he and a photographer arrived at the site
of the murder of Anstraum Aman Villagrán Morales. Their task was to collect
and record information related to the identification of the body. When he
arrived at the scene of the crime, he took the fingerprints of the body and
received a bullet head from a gun bullet from the hands of the judge.
He stated that he was called once to make a statement in court.
h.
Testimony of Roberto Marroquín Urbina, former chief of the
Minors’ Section of the National Police Force
He declared that his function, when he was Chief of the Minors’ Section of the
National Police Force, was to investigate both abuses against children and
offenses committed by children. He initiated the investigation of the San
Nicolás Woods case. In the context of those proceedings, he interviewed
María Eugenia Rodríguez, who was a “street child” and who told how she had
been abducted together with other “street children” a few days before the
abduction of the four youths whose bodies were found in the San Nicolás
Woods. María Eugenia Rodríguez described a series of places and persons.
To corroborate her statement, he stated that he visited the places and
questioned several of the persons she had mentioned, but was unable to
corroborate her version and, consequently, decided that it was not true.
Subsequently, he delegated the investigation to the subordinate investigators,
Ayende Anselmo Ardiano Paz and Edgar Alberto Mayorga Mazariegos.
He was also in charge of the investigations in the case of Anstraum Aman
Villagrán Morales and he declared that two witnesses, a mother and daughter,
who were on 18th Street, had identified the police agents from the Fifth
National Police Unit, Néstor Fonseca López and Samuel Rocael Valdez Zúñiga,
as those responsible for the murder. He stated that, with the identification of
those responsible by witnesses and the ballistic test, it was concluded that the
incriminated agents were responsible, and the corresponding information that
he had collected and signed was forwarded to the Chief of the Criminal
Investigations Department of the National Police Force. He indicated that