The Observer – Montevideo
Interior Minister Carlos Negro, said that the attack against the court prosecutor, Mónica Ferrero, was “the violent response” of drug traffickers in retaliation “For work and permanent combat” against these organized crime bands.
During the early hours of Sunday, Two criminals fired and threw a grenade into the courtyard of Ferrero’s house, located on the eastern arm. The attack did not register injured.
The authorities investigate whether the attack is in retaliation to the seizure of more than two tons of cocaine in a far -tap farm in August. It is estimated that the drug, which was going to be exported abroad, belonged to the group led by drug trafficker Luis Fernández Albín, linked to Sebastián Marset.
The President of the Republic, Yamandú Orsi, summoned a meeting with partisan leaders and with the Minister of the Interior due to the attack. After the meeting, Black was consulted on whether this seizure is linked to the attack on Ferrero. “We are convinced that it is the violent response of drug traffickers.
The minister also said that Orsi summoned Ferrero to Executive Tower. “We held a meeting where the person was expressed first to the person and then the prosecutor, ensuring necessary requirements for their safety and family,” added black.
We are seeing which people who would eventually need greater protection. The prosecutor Ferrero has security many years ago, the safety standards he had were those indicated by the protocol, “added the minister.
On the meeting with the political parties, he stressed that “the need to give a strong institutional response was explicit for all of them.” The criminals arrived by the roofs to the rear patio of the prosecutor. They had arrived in a car and a truck, in which they wore a plank of more than three meters that they used to climb the roofs.
The truck was found shortly after burning near the Miguelete stream, while the car was captured and its alleged occupants, which were two, detained. From the Interior Ministry they affirmed that there will be more of them.
