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Moreover, the file indicates that the investigation is open and that no accusations
have been made.
136. On January 30, 2002, Bladmir Alberto Cáceres Rivas, Deputy Commander and
Chief of the Regional Metropolitan Division of Investigation, submitted a report to the
Office of the Attorney General of the Republic with respect to the threats, and stated
that “the investigation is still underway.”96
137. The last procedural action in the prosecutor’s file number 4799-UDV-2001
according to the evidence in the present case, and in relation to the investigation of
the threats and harassment, occurred on June 19, 2002.
On that date, an
extrajudicial statement was requested in the offices of the “911 emergency
system”.97 In the file presented as evidence in the proceedings before the InterAmerican Court no decision exists which would conclude the investigation.
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138. In the following two sections, this Tribunal will examine: a) the alleged
threats and harassment suffered by members of the García Prieto Giralt family and
b) the investigation of the threats and harassment.
a)
The alleged threats and harassment suffered by the members of the García
Prieto Giralt family
139. It has been proven that José Mauricio García Prieto Hirlemann and Gloria
Giralt de García Prieto have been subjected to threats and harassment, which have
occurred with varying intensity. This Tribunal observes that in their testimonies
before police and prosecutorial authorities, domestic courts, and the Inter-American
Court, José Mauricio García Prieto Hirlemann and Gloria Giralt de García Prieto have
stated that they and other members of their family have been the object of these
acts and described how this has affected their physical and psychological health
(supra para. 16(a), 16(d), 16(e) and 16(j)). Among these events, the following are
notable: the event which occurred at the beach called “El Cuco”; the shots fired at
their house in San Salvador by unknown individuals; the anonymous phone calls to
their houses in San Miguel and San Salvador; the presence of unknown individuals
that ask about the location of family members, in particular, José Mauricio García
Prieto Hirlemann; and the incidents in which they are followed by unknown
individuals, sometimes armed, riding in vehicles with tinted windows and sometimes
without license plates (supra para. 129). In this sense, Gloria Giralt de García Prieto
stated before the Court that:
now, I would like it to be understood that we live in a routine of threats and that we
cannot be filing complaints everyday that they are following us, that they called us on
the phone at two in the morning, that they flashed their headlights at us, because to do
Metropolitan Regional Division of Investigation of April 29, 2002 prosecutor’s file number 4799-UDV-2001,
(exhibits to the brief containing pleadings and motions, exhibit 16, volume 9, page 6815).
96
Cf. Document number 006UJ-DRMI/02 from the Chief of the Metropolitan Regional Division of
Investigation of the National Civil Police, prosecutor’s file number 4799-UDV-2001, (exhibits to the brief
containing pleadings and motions, exhibit 16, volume 1, page 5201).
97
Cf. Communication from the National Civil Police, prosecutor’s file number 4799-UDV-2001,
(exhibits to the brief containing pleadings and motions, exhibit 16, volume 10, page 7097).
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