One of Ecuador’s presidential candidates has demanded an investigation into a shooting that took place meters from where he was dining out with his family on Saturday – just one day before the country goes to the polls.
Otto Sonnenholzner said he had been having breakfast with his wife and daughters at a restaurant when violence broke out. “A few minutes after arriving at the restaurant, there was a shootout after a police chase a few meters from where we were,” Sonnenholzner said in a video message. He said neither he nor his family had been harmed.
” His murder drew international attention and has shaken the country ahead of its presidential and legislative elections on Sunday. Villavicencio’s family has accused the state of the crime of “murder by willful omission” and filed a legal complaint against the government, saying that he was not adequately protected. “They had to watch over his life, knowing he was a journalist who had [received] many threats,” said the family’s lawyer, Marco Yaulema.
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