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B)
General aspects of the arrest of the victims
79(5) The 15th day of September of 1995 the Public Security Force (FUSEP) made
collective arrests, that included the capture of 128 people, within the framework of a
preventive and indiscriminate police operative that took place in the surroundings of
the National Stadium Tiburcio Carias Andino, in the city of Tegucigalpa, in order to
avoid disturbances during the parades held to celebrate Honduras’ National
Independence Day.
79(6) The 16th day of September of 1995 the Police judge Roxana Sierra Ramírez
issued a ruling of “pardon” accompanied by a list with the names of 62 people,
among which Marco Antonio Servellón García, Rony Alexis Betancourth Vásquez, and
Orlando Álvarez Ríos were included. On that same day, although the majority of the
detainees were released, eight people were taken to the second floor of the Seventh
Regional Command of the FUSEP (hereinafter “CORE VII”) in order to take their
fingerprints, and only four of them returned to their cells and were released.
79(7) The Lieutenant José Alberto Alfaro Martínez gave the order that the four
victims of the present case remain on the second floor of the CORE VII, specifically,
“Lieutenant Alfaro […] said, [‘]leave these separate for me[‘…,] the four that
appeared dead on Sunday September seventeenth of [1995]; and he could observe
that they were tied with some rope he had, and he saw that DIOMEDES was crying[.
They were] tied to a Plywood [(sic)], looking towards the wall, […]. They were
nervous, because they were afraid they were going to be killed, since they had been
warned and [they had been told] they belonged to the MARA OF THE [POISON] and
that they had a debt to pay.”21
C)
Arrest, torture, and extrajudicial killing of Marco Antonio Servellón García
79(8) Marco Antonio Servellón García was born on May 3, 1979, in the Central
District of the department of Francisco Morazán. He was the son of Reyes Servellón
Santos and Bricelda Aide García Lobo. He lived in the Colony El Carrizal No. 2, Main
Street, of the city of Tegucigalpa, Honduras. During the day he sold lottery and he
attended his primary studies in the night school for adults Centroamérica Oeste. At
the time of his arrest he was 16 years old.
79(9) Marco Antonio Servellón García was arrested in the collective arrest of
September 15, 1995. He was obliged to lie down on the floor, he was hit on the head
with a gun, and accused of being a thief. They later took the laces from his shoes,
tied him up, and drove him to CORE VII, located in the “Los Dolores” suburb of
Tegucigalpa. On the way and in the offices of the CORE VII, the police agents hit him
in the face, kept him isolated for an hour during which they tied him up by his feet,
pulled him across the floor, and hit him on the back, in the stomach, and on the
face, and on one opportunity they hit him with a chain. He was detained with adults.
79(10) Marco Antonio Servellón García was isolated from the outside world, without
being able to communicate with his next of kin and inform them of the violent
treatment he was receiving from the agents of the CORE VII. Even though his
mother Bricelda Aide García Lobo visited the CORE VII on the 15th and 16th days of
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Cfr. statement offered by Marvin Rafael Díaz before the Second Criminal Peace Court on March
19, 1996 (dossier of appendixes to the petition, appendix 4, volume I, folio 1201 through 1203).