Trujillo Judicial Confinement Sixth penitentiary center freed from mafias

This Wednesday, Operation Gran Cacique Guaicaipuro was carried out in the Judicial penitentiary center of Trujillo, whose situation is already fully controlled by security officials, indicated the Minister for the Interior, Justice and Peace, Remigio Ceballos.

Ceballos stated that this penitentiary center was controlled by criminal mafias, who carried out actions from the boarding school against the inhabitants of the entity.

"We are here in Trujillo, liberating our people from all the criminal mafias that existed here. We have intervened in this Trujillo judicial detention center where there was a criminal structure," said Ceballos, while announcing that during the operation, weapons and material used for the crime were obtained.

"The search is in full swing. This centre has been raided, cleared and controlled in direct combat against the mafias," he added.

In a video published by crime reporter Eligio Rojas on the "X" account, Ceballos indicated that these mafias "impacted the entire state."

"We are liberating the Trujillo state. People should be happy. Ignorant people from non-governmental organizations come to say nonsense instead of recognizing that President Maduro has eliminated the pranato in Venezuela, instead of strengthening that matrix (…) It is clear that they have no idea what is happening in Venezuela," he stressed.

To date, other judicial inmates, known as Tocuyito, Tocorón and La Pica, have already been intervened.

This Monday, the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, demanded that Ceballos and the Minister for the Penitentiary Service, Celsa Bautista, apply in the penitentiary centers a strict regime of high discipline.

"An iron fist, maximum discipline and a penitentiary system free of gangs and pranes, that is the way," he said in his program. With Maduro +.

"All defendants and convicts who are, according to the courts, in these prisons must be subject to a self-imposed regime, to an educational regime, they all have to be studying; to a work regime, they all have to be working," he added.

Weapons seized in the Trujillo penitentiary center

In statements broadcast by Venezolana de Televisión, Ceballos presented an assessment of the type of searches carried out in the Trujillo penitentiary center.

In this sense, he stated that 50 short weapons, six long weapons, 100 bladed weapons, three submachine guns, nine hand grenades, two thousand cartridges and 28 cell phones were seized.

Likewise, he indicated that they are currently in the stage of transferring the more than 500 prisoners who were in the Judicial Confinement Center to different penitentiary centers in the country, whose number already reaches 80 prisons throughout the territory. national.

He stated that this penitentiary center will be transformed and new spaces will be built for the community.

Specifically, he indicated that the facilities will be a new new headquarters of the University for Security (UNES).

"We have finished off the criminal structures that threatened the people and the inmates themselves; Trujillo was liberated, Tocorón was liberated, Tocuyito was liberated, Puente Ayala, Vista Hermosa and La Pica," he said.