The deceased was not the subject of the warrant at all he was Pavel Centeno, an attorney and former Guatemalan finance minister.įive days later, November 2, the Foundation Against Terrorism in Guatemala, a nonprofit group, filed a criminal complaint against CICIG commissioner Iván Velásquez, as well as against MP personnel involved in the botched operation.Ī court ordered the MP to investigate. The major illegality was that officers had killed the wrong man. Twitter published reports of the shooting at 5:40 and 5:42 a.m., time-stamps that proved unlawful entry. A gun battle ensued, and the occupant was killed.
Someone inside the home, sensibly enough, took up a defensive posture. so that when armed officers burst into the home, they were sensibly presumed to be criminals and not law-enforcement officers. By law, all residences are inviolable between 6 p.m. Well before 6 a.m., armed officers took control of the gated community in which the target residence was located. The target was a certain Ronald Giovanni García Navarijo, one of seven suspects in a banking fraud and money- laundering scheme. On October 28, 2016, armed officers of the CICIG and the MP executed an arrest-and-search warrant at a residence in a gated community of the capital city. In this raid upon a private residence, the threat to freedom actually came from the pretended remedy – the CICIG’s own activity – which bids fair to be called murder by diplomatic immunity.
In its ten years – as this case and numerous others show – the CICIG has strayed far from its founding mission. The UN commission, known by its Spanish acronym CICIG, had gained its charter a decade earlier to work with Guatemala’s justice ministry (MP) in eradicating extra-legal, clandestine organizations that might threaten democratic and civic freedoms. In October 2016, a squad of officers under orders of the UN “anti-corruption commission” and its handmaiden, Guatemala’s justice ministry, raided a private residence in order to carry out an arrest-and-search in a case of suspected money laundering.
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