Published at: 12/06/2024 09:00 PM

With machine gun and by pleasure P.T.J. killed EDGARD CARRILLO

(LA EXTRA and CLARÍN, June 5, 1963)

• This is how the newspapers were titled to warn about the police methods used against youth during the government of Rómulo Betancourt (1959-1964), while Carlos Andrés Pérez was Minister of Internal Relations.
• Edgard Carrillo was a 22-year-old boy who served in the Municipal Statistics Control of the Mayor's Office of Caracas.
• This young office worker was murdered by the P.T.J., in front of the Mersirica market in Simón Rodríguez.
• His body had four bullet punctures with an entrance hole in his back caused by P.T.J. officials, who alleged that the young man refused to show his identity card when it was requested.
• The P.T.J. tried to blame the Municipal Police as responsible for the boy's death. Later, when the perpetrator of the crime was proven, they tried to create a criminal record for the murdered person.
• More than 3,000 people from the Simón Rodríguez sector went to pay homage to the young man who had fallen by the repressive politics of the government.
• In the newspaper La Extra, of that same date, it was reported that the 18-year-old boy, Elías Federico Rodríguez, was shot down by a policeman who undertook a tenacious hunt against him until he was caught between the streets of El Manguito and La Ceiba in San Agustín.
• Eyewitnesses warned that the young man was not carrying weapons and that when the voice was given out loud he made no resistance.
• The versions issued by the Police Command, about the young man being shot down, were denied by neighbors and media who warned that he was never imprisoned, was unarmed and had no judicial record.

Mazo News Team