153. During the public hearing, the State indicated that, at the time of Narciso González Medina’s disappearance, “there was no report, no complaint, at any level of the State, establishing that he had been threatened; that he was being followed; we have looked in all the police stations to see if either he or his family had filed a report before his disappearance, and no complaint had been made up until that time.” In this regard, the Court takes note that witness Luis Eduardo (Huchi) Lora Iglesias described that, when he worked with Narciso González Medina, “the threats were frequent. […b]ut [their] attitude was not to make a fuss in this regard […]. [They] did not report the threats [they] received, because [they] understood that this would be giving in to the person who was making the threats, because the intention may have been to make [them] nervous by putting pressure on [them].” 187 154. Based on the above, the Court concludes that there are strong indications that Mr. González Medina was subject to surveillance before he disappeared, irrespective of the filing of a complaint in this regard. D.4) Testimony of those who declared that they had seen Narciso González Medina in State entities 155. The Court observes that, throughout the investigations into what happened to Mr. González Medina different hypotheses and rumors have existed, and around 100 statements were received. The Court has noted the allegation of the Commission and the representatives concerning the existence of six witnesses who testified about the presence of Narciso González Medina in different State entities (military or police facilities) in the days following his disappearance. 188 Four of these individuals testified that they had seen him personally; and one of them subsequently retracted his statement. 189 The other two 187 1113. Testimony given by witness Luis Eduardo Lora Iglesias (Huchi Lora) on June 26, 2011, supra note 88, folio 188 In addition to these six testimonies, one person declared that he had executed Mr. González Medina and thrown his body into a certain river, but subsequently retracted his testimony and indicated that he had received money to testify thus and to incriminate certain officials in the facts. Cf. Summary of the testimony given by Ramón López Hidalgo on August 13 and 19, 1997, before the Seventh Investigating Court, cited in the Investigating Court’s ruling of August 24, 2001, supra note 105, folios 4366 to 4372, and testimony given by witness Guillermo Moreno on June 16, 2011, supra note 127, folios 1106 and 1107. 189 (1) An Army Sergeant Major who “worked as a driver” in the Intelligence Division or Directorate of the Armed Forces Secretariat of State (J-2) stated that he taken part in the operation to detain Narciso González Medina, although he later retracted his testimony. Cf. Testimony of Juan Dionisio Marte before the Joint Board on May 15, 1998 (merits file, tome V, folios 1974 to 1981), and Testimony of Juan Dionisio Marte before the Seventh Investigating Court on January 12, 1999 (merits file, tome V, folios 1903 and 1904). (2) A former Captain in the National Army, declared that, between May 24 and 26, 1994 “he saw when [Narciso González Medina] was taken into [the J-2], but [he] did not recognize him, because [he] did not know him”; however, that evening he had been told that the person concerned was a politician. Statement made by Antonio Quezada Pichardo before the National District Prosecutor on March 12, 1998 (file of attachments to the application, attachment 13, folio 4005). (3) A “police informer” of the Theft Department of the National Police testified that “at around 1.30 a.m.” on May 27, 1994, when he was in the Homicide Department of the National Police headquarters, he saw when two individuals in civilian clothing took an injured man from a jeep without a license plate, who was later identified as Narciso González. According to his testimony, the work of a police informer is “to keep an eye on individuals who are wanted for any kind of criminal act; in other words [… he] was in charge of identifying the individual that the Police is seeking in order to point him out and capture him” and he “worked 24 hours a day.” Statement made by Junior Sarita Lebrón on August 19, 1998, before the Seventh Investigating Court (merits file, tome V, folios 1830 and 1831). In addition, cf. Undated statement made by Junior Sarita Lebron (where he appears as “Junior Sarita Leonardo”) before the Joint Board (file of attachments to the application, attachment 13, folios 4096 and 4099), and statement made by Junior Sarita Lebrón on August 21, 1998, before the Seventh Investigating Court (merits file, tome V, folios 1835 a 1846). (4) One person stated that he had seen Narciso González when he was detained in the National Investigations Department “in May 1994.” Undated statement made by Fernando Isidro Olivo Sánchez before the Joint Board (file of attachments to the application, attachment 13, folio 4092). 50