The athlete with a past in his country’s national team declared: ”It’s something about living again and moving forward. “We are alive and that is the important thing.”
Pedro Pablo Perlazaformer soccer player for the national team Ecuadorwas rescued this Thursday with his friend Juan Carlos Moralesafter having been kidnapped days ago. As detailed by the Esmeralda police commander Diego Velasteguiboth were mistreated and an investigation was opened to clarify the facts.
The 33-year-old Ecuadorian player was intercepted last Sunday, December 1 on the street by a person riding a motorcycle, and was forced to get into a vehicle in which he was taken to an unknown location, according to what his own family reported.
The kidnappers fled the scene
After the operation, the commander explained that the agents ““They were shot by the kidnappers.”and that both Perlaza and Morales ”are mistreated, but alive, which was how we wanted to see them.” In addition, he revealed that the kidnappers fled the scene, which facilitated the rescue maneuvers, and that they are presumably “injured.”
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Once the rescue was over, Perlaza expressed his gratitude to the Ecuadorian police forces by giving statements to the press: ”To the police anti-kidnapping unit, UNASE, for getting us out of where we were in, to tell you that it was more than fifteen mountains, It’s something about living again and moving forward. “We are alive and that is the important thing.”
This case joins other kidnappings that have occurred in recent weeks in the country presided over by Daniel Noboa, who declared a state of emergency in the month of October and has extended it for another 30 days.
Furthermore, in the last few hours the Ecuadorian security force issued a new statement, in which it reported having freed the victim of a kidnapping similar to the one suffered by Perlaza, although the name of the freed person was not communicated.
Source: Ambito
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