Instead, Pimentel Rios is accused alongside 16 others of having participated in an elite squadron of Guatemalan kaibiles who executed a massacre of more than 200 unarmed civilians in the community of Las Dos Erres on December 7th, 1982.
In August of this year, three implicated ex-kaibiles and one ex-military commissioner were condemned to more than 6000 years in prison for the murder of 201 people and for crimes against humanity for their participation in this massacre.
Briefly citing eye-witness and expert testimonies given during that historic trial, Flores ruled that there was sufficient probability that Pimentel Rios was directly involved in the massacre to warrant going to trial for murder.
Guatemala – Ayer, Jueza Carol Patricia Flores del Tribunal de Primera Instancia de Sentencia Penal de Narcoactividad y Delitos contra el Ambiente declaró sin lugar los argumentos de la defensa del ex-militar Pedro Pimentel Ríos, declarando que el acusado pueda ser juzgado por el crimen de asesinato y delitos en contra de deberes de la humanidad en el caso de la masacre de las Dos Erres.
El abogado de Pimentel Rios sustuvó que en ningún lugar de la acusación formal existían nombres específicos de las personas supuestamente matados por su cliente, ni evidencia balística para incriminarlo.
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