What Is the Scope of the Mega-Trial Against MS-13 Leaders in El Salvador? : The Tico Times | Costa Rica News
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The mass trial of 486 alleged members of the Mara Salvatrucha, better known as the MS-13, opened on 20 April in El Salvador. The Attorney-General's Office mentioned in a statement that 29,000 homicides were attributed to them among the "47,000 crimes and crimes committed between 2012 and 2022".
Handcuffed with feet and hands, aged, the leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) tried in El Salvador are just a shadow of the violent gang members who made this country one of the most dangerous.
What Is the Scope of the Mega-Trial Against MS-13 Leaders in El Salvador? : The Tico Times | Costa Rica News
Shackled hand and foot, visibly aged, the MS-13 leaders on trial in El Salvador are now only a shadow of the violent gang members who once helped turn the country into one of the most dangerous in the world. They are 22 members of the “historic ranfla,” the leadership structure of MS-13, made up of veterans of the criminal organization dismantled by the government of Nayib Bukele. Most are imprisoned in the Terrorism Confinement Center, known as…
El Salvador puts 486 MS-13 leaders on trial for 29,000 killings in process Bukele compares to Nuremberg
El Salvador launched in late April the largest trial in the country's history against 486 alleged leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha-13, accused of ordering more than 29,000 killings committed between 2012 and 2022, in a process President Nayib Bukele described as 'historic' and compared to the Nuremberg trials against Nazi leaders after the Second World War. The proceedings, held before a specialized tribunal with anonymous judges, represent the fi
The Government of El Salvador initiated a mass trial against 486 alleged leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha-13, including 22 alleged members of the leadership known as Ranfla Nacional, who were accused by the authorities of ordering 29,000 homicides committed between 2012 and 2022. According to the accusation, the leadership of the gang operated from the Zacatecoluca prison in the center of the country, from where it ordered “commit large-scale hom…
The Office of the Attorney General of the Republic (FGR) continues this day with the development of the single hearing against 486 MS-13 leaders, accused of ordering multiple crimes at the national level between 2012 and 2022. During the day, it is expected to conclude the reproduction of audios that show the criminal action in the eastern part of the [...] The post Advances Hearing against 486 historical leaders of the MS appeared first on Diar…
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