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A PTJ KILLED A 15-YEAR-OLD BOY

Published at: 10/07/2024 09:00 PM

(Clarín, JULY 4, 1963)

  • Luis Vicente García was assassinated at a time when 50% of the dead who appeared on the red pages of national newspapers were assassinated by the Government of Rómulo Betancourt.
  • The act of blood occurred when he knocked on the door of the apartment located on the second floor, No. 5, Paramacay Building on Las Flores Street in Sabana Grande, owned by his friend, Ángela Soler.
  • With two other friends he went to visit her, and when the door opened, the official of the Judicial Technical Police (PTJ) appeared and shot her at point-blank range.
  • The 15-year-old victim, Luis Vicente García, was born in Madrid, Spain, and was domiciled in the El Conde Urbanization, Avenida Sur 17, house No. 43.
  • He was the youngest of 5 siblings, worked for the company Meccanica Nacional S.A., and was studying Physical Education.
  • The homicidal official offered money to the two eyewitnesses to the crime, to buy their silence, and at the same time threatened to kill them. Then he fled in a taxi.
  • The agent, upon arriving at headquarters, the PTJ drew scratches on his body to simulate an attack.
  • Luis Vicente García, as a mechanical workshop worker, earned a salary of 18 bolivars a day, which he provided in full to help support the family.
  • That same day, in Barcelona, Anzoátegui state, a URD youth leader was murdered for not listening to the loud voice of a municipal policeman. The so-called Escape Act was applied to him.

Mazo News Team