Gang members and ex-policeman who claimed Christian Poveda was an informer jailed for between four and 30 years
A court in El Salvador has convicted 10 gang members and a former policeman over the murder of a Franco-Spanish photojournalist who made an internationally acclaimed documentary about them.
Christian Poveda initially gained the trust of a notorious gang known as Mara 18 in La Campanera, a tough slum in the capital, San Salvador, but in September 2009 was ambushed and shot four times in the head.
The central American country has one of the world's highest homicide rates.
This week a court sentenced Luis Vásquez and José Alejandro Melara to 30 years for planning the murder and two others to 20 years for pulling the trigger and acting as lookout.
A former policeman, Juan Napoleón Espinoza, was jailed for four years as an accessory for telling the gang that Poveda was an informer.
Other officers denied their colleague's claim,...
A court in El Salvador has convicted 10 gang members and a former policeman over the murder of a Franco-Spanish photojournalist who made an internationally acclaimed documentary about them.
Christian Poveda initially gained the trust of a notorious gang known as Mara 18 in La Campanera, a tough slum in the capital, San Salvador, but in September 2009 was ambushed and shot four times in the head.
The central American country has one of the world's highest homicide rates.
This week a court sentenced Luis Vásquez and José Alejandro Melara to 30 years for planning the murder and two others to 20 years for pulling the trigger and acting as lookout.
A former policeman, Juan Napoleón Espinoza, was jailed for four years as an accessory for telling the gang that Poveda was an informer.
Other officers denied their colleague's claim,...
- 3/12/2011
- by Rory Carroll
- The Guardian - Film News
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