The sister of the Rioja truck driver shot in San Juan, Brenda Orihuela, assured that They will not stop asking for justiceas they did on Sunday in Chepes, where they held a march to remember Federico Orihuelaon his birthday.
“My brother told us that the police bribed him, it was always the same police officer who bothered him, who didn’t let him be in a place, and there he took money from him,” Brenda said on Radio Sarmiento.
And he added “my mother transferred him 30 thousand pesos, 20, and so on. He said that he was the same as always, he did not name him, but we assumed that he was Ricardo Rodríguez,” said the woman in reference to the officer charged in the case. “That day, tired of this daily practice of the police, He refuses to pay and heads towards his town and that provokes cruelty. and premeditated hunting. It’s a chase and they end up shooting my brother,” said the trucker’s sister.
“We ask for an exemplary sentence, life imprisonment and also for the others involved. The driver who provided his service weapon and pursued without trying to avoid it, Corporal Aníbal Elizondo,” said Brenda, who announced that they plan to travel to San Juan to continue the process.
WHAT WAS THE CRIME OF THE RIOJANO TRUCK DRIVER?
Last Friday, February 9, Federico Orihuela, a truck driver from Chepes, La Rioja, who came to San Juan during the Safari in Valle Fértil, was shot when he tried to flee from the police while he was being taken to the police station. After a chase, Orihuela received several bullet wounds that came from the weapon of the sub-inspector officer Ricardo Rodríguez.
Orihuela’s tragic itinerary began when some police officers, assigned to the police operation for the Safari rally after the Sierras, asked him to remove his truck from the place where he had parked it and, in the process, demanded documentation. When they noticed that he was not in order – they explained – they called the police station and asked him to go with a truck and everything to that police headquarters. But on the way he turned aside and accelerated, apparently with the intention of leaving, perhaps to his house in Chepes, La Rioja.
According to investigators, in the first stretches of the chase, two police officers on motorcycles from the GAM Group passed him and went ahead to alert other drivers traveling in the opposite direction about the danger. Behind the truck driver were the police station cell phone with Rodríguez, the driver and a police officer, another patrol car and an Environment truck.
The man died after being shot and the judicial process began to determine the responsibility of the San Juan police officer.
