Tegucigalpa June 2, 2010. The leader of the National Front of Popular Resistance, FNRP, in the city of Comayagua, Juan Ramon Flores, demanded today for his safety and that of his family after he escaped from his captors at the height of Siguatepeque.
Flores, a former candidate for deputy and leader of the Resistance Front was kidnapped by a group of armed men who intercepted him in a tire repair shop, where they left 14 people tied up in the city of Comayagua.
According to the testimony of Flores, in an interview broadcast by Radio Globo, kidnappers did not intend at any time to steal the vehicle, as it is in bad shape, "they were going after the documents I was carrying" which were many Sovereign Declaration Statements (for a National Constituent Assembly) and other documents related to the popular consultation.
According to the victim, the target of the kidnappers was to murder him, which is why why they had him on his knees with his hands on his head for more than five hours, but according to his testimony they didn't execute him because of fear of being heard by the police that was nearby.
Flores reported that in one of the checkpoints one of the kidnappers introduced himself as a member of the National Directorate of Criminal Investigation DNIC, and that in another moment they returned in front of the police checkpoint without the police noticing it.
According to Flores those who abducted him are either military or police due to their physical appearance and to the language they used to communicate with each other.
Flores believes that people who kidnapped him had been following him for several days because his family had detected the pursuit by stranger's vehicles around his home.
Flores is on military and police files
The Committee for the Defence of Human Rights CODEH, has given a testimony in which he recounts how on September 22 last year, after the return of President Manuel Zelaya Rosales during the violent eviction in the surroundings of the Embassy of Brazil, Flores's vehicle "was dragged into a public parking lot that the military enabled, they broke its windows with authority and in a premeditated manner. "
Later, when Flores made arrangements to get back his vehicle, the military and police under the command of Danilo Orellana, now national director of prisons, also took photographs of him(Flores), leaving all his personal data.
For CODEH, the kidnapping of Flores follows a systematic pattern, since with this case, there are already three kidnap victims, which have in common the seizure of their vehicles in the evacuation of 22 September.
Source: FIAN-Honduras
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