expressed her conformity with the report and signed it, together with her husband [and her
legal representative].” In addition, at that meeting “a document was drafted containing a
record of the opinions of those present regarding the content of the report, including
specific facts of the case that [the representative] had requested the Ministry of the Interior
to investigate, and [subsequently] clarify in its official report […].”
5.
Thus, regarding the said report from the Ministry of the Interior (supra considering
paragraph 4), the State indicated that the Ministry’s Director for the Protection of Rights
had asked “the Commander-in-Chief [of the Police] to appoint an official […] with training in
human rights so that it could be prepared jointly […].” Accordingly, during a working
meeting also held on June 29, 2012, police officer Cristobal Tenorio advised that he had
visited “the site of the events, and could see that the Provisional Detention Center where
Mr. Vera Vera was detained no longer exists.” In addition, during the said meeting, “the
need to clarify certain specific aspects” was noted. Moreover, according to the State, the
Ministry of the Interior had asked the Ministry of Justice to provide “all the information it
had available on the case in order to prepare a more complete report and [… take] into
account the specific aspects that the […representative] had mentioned” (supra considering
paragraph 4).
A.2.
Observations of the representative
6.
He indicated that “during a meeting held at the Ministry of Justice, it was observed
that […] the report [... presented] did not comply with the obligation to inform the mother
[of Pedro Miguel Vera Vera] of the truth of what happened, because it was a summary of
the relevant parts of the proceedings before the […] Court […],” and did not answer several
questions.3 According to the representative, “[i]n view of this, the Ministry of Justice
officials stated that the police had appointed an investigator trained in human rights and
they hoped that the Ministry of the Interior would soon proceed to draft the said report.”
A.3.
Observations of the Inter-American Commission
7.
It mentioned that “[e]ven though the State had indicated that the victim [had]
expressed her agreement” with the official report presented to her at the meeting of June
29, 2012, the representative “indicate[d] that the report does not comply with the measure
of reparation ordered. [… I]n any case, both parties agreed that a new report by the
Ministry of the Interior is pending.” Thus, the Commission “consider[ed] that the State must
take the appropriate measures to ensure that, in this new report, an official answer is
provided to the questions raised by [the] representative, because they precisely reflect the
victim’s questions regarding what happened to her son.”
A.4.
Considerations of the Inter-American Court
8.
The State submitted a copy of the report prepared by the Ministry of Justice,
presumably in compliance with this measure of reparation, which was “validat[ed]” by
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According to the representative, the said report “did not answer, for example, questions such as: why the
police agents who saw the mob pursuing the victim and heard the shot, only arrested the victim and not those who
fired on him; why the Santo Domingo doctors, without a full assessment and examination, decided to discharge
him and order his transfer to the police cell; why the doctor in charge of the victim in the police cell issued a report
saying that [Mr. Vera Vera was] all right[,] contradicting the medical assessment that indicated the seriousness of
his condition and requested his immediate transfer to a hospital; and why the judge opened criminal proceedings
against Pedro Vera for theft and did not open a criminal action to investigate those responsible for the shot that
resulted in [his] death […].”
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