While everyone in the Valdivia commune was celebrating one of their traditional festivals a few days ago amidst joy, parades and dancing, an event that occurred around the INDUVAL case and that involved harassment, insults and blows to the President of the Valdivia Commune, Pedro Borbor, marred these celebrations.
The incident that occurred on the afternoon of July 13 began when Pedro Borbor received a surprise visit from representatives of the Institute of Hygiene to the facilities of the INDUVAL packing plant, which has been indicated for several years as a point of contamination that affects the community; according to environmentalists and representatives of the commune.
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According to what Pedro Borbor told this media, after going to the packing plant and collecting samples from various points (not a single sample was taken from the places where the community leader requested the representatives of the Institute of Hygiene), he located two places where there were supposedly two mounds of fish remains in an advanced state of putrefaction, so he began to take photographs that would later be disseminated.
At that moment, the emergency alarm sounded but to Borbor's surprise, that alarm was not to evacuate but immediately had a group of company workers around him who were yelling at him, while he was detained by the security guards and taken to a separate room where he began to be beaten and insulted to force him to delete the photos he had taken. Pedro Borbor indicates that at no time was there any warning that taking photographs was prohibited, either verbally or through any announcement.
The most serious thing about this whole affair, according to the victim, is that all these abuses took place in the presence of two National Police officers; one of them, according to Borbor named William Verdezoto, simply repeated the words of the company guards: "delete the photos so they let you go."
After nearly 30 minutes of enduring this pressure, the president of the Valdivia commune was forced to delete ALL the photographs from the camera, which was even owned by councilman Javier Rodríguez of the Santa Elena canton.
At the time of this publication, the affected person mentioned that the Prosecutor's Office had told him that he (Pedro Borbor) should locate Agent Verdezoto so that he could deliver the report of the events, something that, according to what Borbor was informed, has not yet occurred.
It is necessary that the Attorney General's Office, the Ombudsman's Office, the National Police, and even the representatives of the company immediately begin investigation processes to clarify these events and ensure that these outbreaks of violence towards community leaders are nipped in the bud.
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