“They want to transmit terror”he pointed Alina Manrique, the editor-in-chief, at the same time describing: “They beat me, robbed me and dragged us.”
The moment where the armed group enters the building
He also gave details of how the attackers entered the building. “I was in the newsroom that is closest to the reception, which was where the armed men entered,” he said. “They came in shooting, breaking doors, windows. Many colleagues hid, me too but instead of fleeing to the upper floor, because all this happened on the ground floor, I hid in a bathroom with two other colleagues who appear in the shots. ”he added.
Manrique pointed out what was from the bathroom where “we called other friends and family to call the police and they will alert us to the situation and we try to remain silent so that they do not find us.”
“Finally they found uswe heard them approaching, they took us out of the bathroom where we were, they insulted us, they said the worst things to us and even though I came out with my hands up, they hit me, they stole a medal I had and they dragged us to the studio where others were our colleagues,” the woman continued detailing how the events occurred.
Regarding the armed group, he understands that they had a clear message: “They wanted to broadcast the terror live, say that the mafia had the power and things like that.”
Past almost an hour after the attacks entered “When the police entered they began to use five of us as human shields. They targeted us, “They took us to another smaller studio.” “It was the moment I feared most for my life,” she added.
Finally he explained that in many videos shared on social networks about the kidnapping “I say the names of my children, because I really thought I was going to die and for them to know that I love them and my companions began to do the same.”
Death toll rises to 10 after attacks by armed groups in Ecuador
The Police updated the death toll after the continuous acts of violence recorded in recent hours, with attacks in streets, prisons, universities and a television channel. There are eight civilians and two security agents.
Rafael Correa, on the crisis in Ecuador: “We cry tears of blood”
“I am distraught, they destroyed the country, due to neoliberal fundamentalism, the dismantling of the State, but above all due to political hatred. By persecuting us and destroying everything we had done, they dismantled all the security institutions“, described in Minute One the former head of state between January 2007 and May 2017.
From Belgium, where he resides as a political asylum, Correa detailed the reasons that led to a violent context in Ecuadorian territory: “They carried out a coup d’état to persecute us, they changed judges, prosecutors and put in the worst, there is no longer justice. Today we cry tears of blood. I have not seen such rapid destruction of a country in times of peace“.
Source: Ambito
