Bolivian justice has ordered the preventive detention of seven people involved in the tragedy that killed six at a university

A judge ordered this Thursday the preventive detention of seven university leaders for the death of a group of students who fell nearly 17 meters after a railing collapsed last Tuesday at a university in Bolivia.

The judicial decision of preventive detention applies to the accused identified as Pablo ACP, Wilson Q.CH., Vladimir PA, Rosa MMG, Fanny MV.C., Nayeli V.CH.T. and Juan CYCL, all leaders of the Public University of El Alto (Upea), said a statement from the prosecutor’s office.

The notice also mentions that the accused must be in prison “for four monthsIn La Paz prisons while investigations are ongoing.

At the hearing, which took place around 2:00 p.m. local time (6:00 p.m. GMT) and lasted more than eight hours, it was established that the defendants “are probably the perpetrators of the crime of wrongful death and wrongful injuryEleven students who fell from a fourth floor of a pavilion at the University’s Faculty of Economics, Finance and Administration.

“The probability of the paternity of the accused is centered on the call by the heads of the Student Center for different careers from the economy and finance sector to an extraordinary face-to-face student assembly, ”the prosecutor’s office said of the tragedy that left six people dead.

Moreover, during the hearing, risks were established such as the “danger of flight and obstruction” of the accused, according to the prosecution.

Research indicates that student leaders they did not respect the rules that prohibit crowds for the COVID-19 pandemic and that they were aware of the “struggles” between two fronts and that they always called the meeting in which “they put the lives of university students in danger”.

The forensic assessment was based on witness statements, forensic and police records In addition to the report of the university, the prosecutors, quoted in the press release, assured.

The cause of death of the seven students was “multiple trauma»In different parts of the body taking into account the height of the fall, according to the forensic assessment at the time of the lifting of the bodies.

The event on Tuesday March 2 sparked nationwide unrest due to the harshness of the footage that recorded the moment the railing collapsed and university students fell.

The tragedy prompted separate declarations of solidarity from educational entities and national authorities, as well as demands for justice and intervention from the student center and the Local University Federation (FUL), as it was considered threats were used to summon more than 500 university students last Tuesday. at this meeting.

(With information from EFE)

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