Octavio left to look for Robert, and later there was news that they had died.47 In the investigation case file of
CICPC (see infra D), also appearing on the record is the statement of the medical surgeon of José María Vargas
Hospital, who was on duty when David Octavio and his father were admitted and asserted that both of them
arrived without displaying any vital signs.48
49.
The statements and complaints of the family members of the alleged victims recount the lack
of accurate information about the whereabouts of the Díaz Loreto brothers and their father Octavio Díaz. In
this regard, Bladimir Lenín Díaz Loreto testified that after learning the news that Robert had been wounded,
he headed to José María Vargas Hospital of Cagua, and when he arrived there he found out that it was his
father and his brother Octavio who were there and that they had died, and that Robert Ignacio had been
transferred to another medical facility.49 Dinora María Díaz Loreto testified that when she arrived in the
same hospital searching for Robert Ignacio, she saw “uniformed police officers, two motor cycle troopers and
one patrol car, then […] one of them [shouted to her] husband to help take out the two wounded men and
when [they looked] they realized that one of the wounded men was his dad and the other was his brother
named David Díaz.” In the statement, she claimed that “both of them were admitted dead to the hospital, after
two hours” and that when she asked an officer about their other brother, she was told that they had taken the
other “wounded man” to the public hospital (el seguro social). She also reported that several residents of the
sector, told her about how the facts had unfolded matching the version recounted in this section.50
50.
Separately, Mrs. Alexandra Teresa Gualdron Pernia testified that after learning that “the
police had wounded Robert” they went to the police headquarters of la Segundera, “in order to verify the
information because the residents were saying that Robert was being held inside a patrol car and that they
were driving around.” She claimed that the officer that received them told them: “that [police] detail did not
belong to that headquarters and that they had heard something over the radios but they could not do
anything.” She also testified that when they saw Robert Ignacio’s body they noticed “two shots in the chest
and one in the belly, in addition to being all wet from sewage and mud around his eyes and ears.”51 Her
husband, Jairo Alexis Díaz Loreto, also reported the death of his brothers and his father and about how he had
learned through the accounts of neighbors who witnessed the events, and the investigative steps that had
been conducted to locate his whereabouts after Robert Ignacio was taken from his house by police officers.
He also said in his statement that when he saw his body, it “had the T-shirt around the neck and his face was
47 See: Statement of Maray Normeidy Serrano Jiménez to the CICPC of Cagua. Cited in Annex 6. Bolivarian Republic of
Venezuela. Ministry of Public Prosecution. Office of the Ninth Prosecutor of the Judicial District of the State of Aragua. Official Letter No.
05-F9-1304-03. Charging document filed with the Fifth Oversight Judge of the Criminal Judicial Circuit of the State of Aragua on June 13,
2003, page 10. Annex to the initial petition of March 14, 2007; Statement of Deiby José Rodríguez to the CICPC of Cagua. Cited in Annex 6.
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Ministry of Public Prosecution. Office of the Ninth Prosecutor of the Judicial District of the State of
Aragua. Official Letter No. 05-F9-1304-03. Charging document filed with the Fifth Oversight Judge of the Criminal Judicial Circuit of the
State of Aragua on June 13, 2003, page 11. Annex to the initial petition of March 14, 2007; and Annex 28. Bolivarian Republic of
Venezuela. Ministry of the Interior and Justice. CICPC. Aragua Region – Cagua Sectional Office. Statement of César Ramón Salazar Díaz of
February 3, 2003. Annex to the initial petition of March 14, 2007.
48 See: Annex 29. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Ministry of the Interior and Justice. CICPC. Aragua Region – Cagua Sectional
Office. Statement of Norca Morillo, medical surgeon of the José María Vargas Hospital of Cagua, of February 13, 2003. Annex to the initial
petition of March 14, 2007.
49 Statement cited in Annex 6. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Ministry of Public Prosecution. Office of the Ninth Prosecutor
of the Judicial District of the State of Aragua. Official Letter No. 05-F9-1304-03. Charging document filed with the Fifth Oversight Judge of
the Criminal Judicial Circuit of the State of Aragua on June 13, 2003. Annex to the initial petition of March 14, 2007.
50 Statement of Dinora María Díaz Loreto to the CICPC of Cagua. Cited in Annex 6. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Ministry of
Public Prosecution. Office of the Ninth Prosecutor of the Judicial District of the State of Aragua. Official Letter No. 05-F9-1304-03.
Charging document filed with the Fifth Oversight Judge of the Criminal Judicial Circuit of the State of Aragua on June 13, 2003, pages 1112. Annex to the initial petition of March 14, 2007.
51 Statement of Alexandra Teresa Gualdron Pernia to the CICPC of Cagua. Cited in Annex 6. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Ministry of Public Prosecution. Office of the Ninth Prosecutor of the Judicial District of the State of Aragua. Official Letter No. 05-F9-130403. Charging document filed with the Fifth Oversight Judge of the Criminal Judicial Circuit of the State of Aragua on June 13, 2003, page
14. Annex to initial petition of March 14, 2007.
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