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the Domestic Violence Prevention and Eradication Program (PROPEVI), attached to the Secretariat for
Social Works of the Office of the First Lady.
45.
The Presidential Committee to Address Femicide in Guatemala was institutionalized on
March 9, 2012 Its mandate is to study, analyze, and identify the causes of femicide in the country and to
recommend policies, strategies, programs, plans, and projects to prevent, provide assistance in, punish,
and reduce cases of femicide in Guatemala. The State also referred to the National Policy on
Advancement and Integral Development for Women, the Equity and Opportunities Plan, and the
National Plan for Prevention and Eradication of Domestic Violence and Violence against Women
(PLANOVI) 2004-2014.
46.
The State said that in this case the investigation procedures necessary to find the
culprits were still proceeding.
IV.
ESTABLISHED FACTS
47.
In the following section the Commission sets out its position regarding the established
facts in this case.
The reported disappearances
48.
In his statement to the Public Prosecution Service, Jorge Rolando Velásquez said that at
approximately 3:00 a.m. a national Civil Police patrol car arrived at the main gate to Colonia Panorama,
the area where the witnesses had allegedly seen the victim alive. He said that they had followed the
patrol car to the entrance to Pinares, “where they said that there was nothing more to be done and that
they were going to continue patrolling.”6 Furthermore, in a statement to the Public Prosecution Service,
Elsa Claudina Paiz Vidal said that a patrol car arrived at the Panorama gate in response to a telephone
call that they had made concerning their daughter’s disappearance. The patrol car accompanied them
through the streets as far as the Pinares entrance, when the officers told them that they had to “wait at
least 24 hours.”7
49.
Among the documents supplied by the petitioners is a receipt for a missing person’s
report issued on August 13, 2005, by San Cristobal Precinct 1651 (of the 16th Police District), which
records that Claudina Paiz reported her daughter’s disappearance at 8:30 a.m.8
The Discovery of the Body
50.
According to a police report, members of that body had gone to the place where the
body of the alleged victim was found on the instructions of the dispatcher. The parties offer no
6
Appendix 1. Statement by Jorge Rolando Velásquez Durán of September 22, 2005, to the Public Prosecution Service.
Copy of the judicial record presented by the petitioners on May 31, 2012.
7
Appendix 2. Statement by Elsa Claudina Paiz Vidal of September 22, 2005 to the Public Prosecution Service. Copy of
judicial record presented by the petitioners on May 31, 2012.
8
Appendix 3. Receipt for missing person’s report issued on August 13, 2005 by National Civil Police Precinct 1651
situated in Ciudad San Cristóbal Mixco. Appendix to the original petition of December 10, 2007.