10 documentary evidence requested as evidence to facilitate adjudication of the case, under instructions by the President.13 B) TESTIMONY AND EXPERT OPINIONS 49. On May 5, 6 and 7, 2004 the Court heard the testimony of the witnesses and the expert opinions of the expert witnesses offered by the Inter-American Commission and by the representative of the alleged victims and their next of kin. The Court will now summarize the significant parts of said statements. a. Testimony of Ángel del Rosario Vásquez Chumo, member of the Peruvian National Police at the time of the facts He was the driver of the police patrol car in which the brothers Rafael Samuel and Emilio Moisés Gómez Paquiyauri were put on June 21, 1991. That day the Sergeant Francisco Antezano Santillán, who together with other officers of the “POE” police unit put the victims in the trunk, was with the witness. When he arrived at the place of the facts, the alleged victims had been detained by Corporal Ari Jaime, who had a gun aimed upward and the detainees were on the ground, facing down and with their hands free. Sergeant Antezano Santillán got out of the vehicle to talk to Corporal Ari Jaime. Afterwards, Captain César Augusto Santoyo Castro and other officers arrived, including members of the “POE” Unit, whose direct superior was major Juan Valdelomar Quirós Chávez. Sergeant Antezano Santillán received orders from Captain Santoyo Castro, and he told the witness that they should go toward “Ventanilla” in the district of El Callao, while Captain Santoyo Castro went behind them with another patrolman and behind the latter came another patrol car with first Sergeant Canales. After a stoplight, the three patrol cars separated. When they arrived at the place known as “la Pampa de los Perros,” Sergeant Antezano Santillán ordered the witness to drive the vehicle into that place, and 150 to 200 meters further he ordered him to turn the car toward Fose Avenue to see if the other two patrol cars arrived. Sergeant Antezano Santillán asked the witness for the key to the patrol car, took out his gun, went to the back of the car, and opened the trunk. Mr. Vásquez Chumo says he felt when the detainees got out. Since the trunk was open, he could not see what happened at the back of the car, and he continued watching the Avenue to see whether he could locate the other two patrol cars. Then he heard shots. He got out of the car and saw Sergeant Antezano Santillán with the gun pointed downward; the detainees were lying face down, and he saw one of the detainees still trembling. Sergeant Antezano Santillán asked him to help take the alleged victims to the hospital. He quickly helped put the wounded into the trunk and they went to the San Juan Hospital. The witness heard Captain Santoyo Castro ask Sergeant Antezano Santillán 13 See file on the merits, reparations, and costs, volume V, leaves 1145 to 1148.

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