The Attorney General’s Office of the Republic of El Salvador (FGR) reported this June 4 that mass hearing has resumed against 485 alleged gang leaders of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13).
In a message on the social network “serious crimes” between 2012 and 2022.
Max Muñoz, deputy prosecutor against Organized Crime of the FGR, announced that the final arguments stage is scheduled to begin once all the evidence is incorporated into the process.
“We are going to demonstrate to the judge for approximately two weeks that all the evidence that the Prosecutor’s Office has offered is sufficient to be able to convict them for each and every one of the 47 thousand accusations that are attributed to them and that the maximum prison sentences be imposed on them,” said Muñoz.
The prosecutor mentioned that the Salvadoran authorities seek that each of the accused face “sentences of thousands of years for their criminal actions.”
A total of 485 defendants are in this massive hearing, of which 413 are present and The rest are absent, the Prosecutor’s Office said.
It was last April 20 when the FGR announced the start of the mass hearing against the alleged ringleaders, who are accused of more than 47 thousand crimes.
“Among those subject to prosecution there are 22 ringleaders of the historic ranfla, 212 ranfleros, 152 program runners, among others“said the Prosecutor’s Office at the time.
Among the crimes that the alleged gang members are accused of include aggravated homicide, disappearance of people, extortion, illicit groups, illicit trafficking of firearms, feminicide, attempted homicide and deprivation of liberty.