40 prison.42 Valerian Edouard, Mr. Tibi’s son, was unable to visit him or see him during his incarceration.43 The girl Lisianne Judith Tibi was taken many times by her mother to the prison where her father was detained.44 90.6. After his release, Mr. Tibi returned to France and separated from Beatrice Baruet, from his daughter and from his foster daughters.45 He also lost communication with his son Valerian Edouard.46 In regards to the anti-narcotics procedure called Operation “Camarón” 90.7. On September 18, 1995, in the Province of the Guayas, Ecuador, in the framework of an anti-narcotics operation, subsequently called “Operativo Camarón”, the Police found “a 26 cubic feet, white General Electric refrigerator, inside which were forty-five boxes of prawn, and inside each of these crustaceans there was a capsule with a substance[,] which reacted in the field test by means of chemical reagents[,] as COCAINE HIDROCHLORYDE.”47 90.8. On September 18, 1995, Eduardo Edison García León, an Ecuadorian national, was detained in the framework of Operation “Camarón”.48 On September 23, 1995 Mr. García León made his pre-trial statement before the Seventh Criminal Prosecutor of the Guayas, in which he stated that “a French individual, by name Daniel, […] supplied him with up to fifty grams [of cocaine], two or three times […]”.49 90.9. On September 26, 1995, Police Second Lieutenant Carlos Blanco submitted a report to the Provincial Head of INTERPOL in the Guayas, in which he pointed out that “there is a reference in the investigations in the ‘Camaron’ [Operation] to 42 See testimony of Daniel Tibi rendered before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on July 7, 2004; and testimony of Beatrice Baruet rendered before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on July 7, 2004. 43 See testimony of Daniel Tibi rendered before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on July 7, 2004. 44 See testimony of Daniel Tibi rendered before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on July 7, 2004; and testimony of Beatrice Baruet rendered before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on July 7, 2004. 45 See testimony of Daniel Tibi rendered before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on July 7, 2004; testimony of Beatrice Baruet rendered before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on July 7, 2004; and expert opinion of Ana Deutsch rendered before the InterAmerican Court during the public hearing held on July 7, 2004. 46 See testimony of Daniel Tibi rendered before the Inter-American Court during the public hearing held on July 7, 2004. 47 See report by Police Lieutenant Rubén Alarcón Ramírez to the provincial head of INTERPOL at the Guayas on September 18, 1995 (file with appendixes to the brief with preliminary objections, reply to the application and comments on the arguments and motions, leaf 1275). 48 See arrest warrant against Eduardo Edison García León and others by the First Criminal Court of the Guayas on September 18, 1995 (file with appendixes to the brief with preliminary objections, reply to the application and comments on the arguments and motions, leaves 1268 and 1269). 49 See statement rendered by Eduardo Edison García León before the Seventh Criminal Prosecutor of the Guayas on September 23, 1995 (file with appendixes to the application, volume II, appendix 3, leaf 223; and file with appendixes to the brief with preliminary objections, reply to the application and comments on the arguments and motions, leaf 1129 to 1139).