During the afternoon of this Good Friday, the Public Ministry (MP) reported that more than six homes were set on fire between the night of last Thursday 17 and the morning of this Friday, April 18, in San Pedro Carchá, Alta Verapaz.
According to the personnel of the Regional Prosecutor III Norte, the District Prosecutor’s Office of Alta Verapaz and the Municipal Prosecutor’s Office of San Pedro Carchá, there were two communities in the municipality who were faced and the inarded residents.
With the support of the National Civil Police (PNC), the fiscal staff managed to dialogue with the inhabitants of the two communities faced and an agreement was reached to “restore order and peace” in the hamlet Semi the bladelocated in the IX Sejajal region of San Pedro Carchá, authorities reported.
Following this confrontation, six homes (three in each community) were completely burned, in which they were two motorcycles and a motorcycle taxi, A three -wheeled motorized vehicle, which also ended up incinerated by rival settlers.
Confrontation in San Pedro Carchá
After reaching an agreement with the residents of both communities in San Pedro Carchá, the Public Prosecutor’s staff made a Ocular inspection Of the six homes that were completely burned and subsequently they took testimonial statements of the owners of the properties.
In social networks it was rumored that a paramilitary group led by the Community Development Council (Crocode) He was allegedly in charge of attacking families in the community of Semuy La Blade and in the Cambayal village, both located in San Pedro Carchá.
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Various Internet users resumed that “at least fifteen homes” had been burned by the paramilitary group in the municipality, in addition to eight minors had disappeared during the night of Thursday 17 until the morning of this Friday, April 18.
However, the Public Ministry’s fiscal pesonal managed to speak with the parents of three minors who were apparently missing, where the mothers indicated that the children really “had hidden in it forested area“From the village during the fires.
Minors were found by the National Civil Police in good health and without any physical damage. On the other hand, six families ended up attacked and affected by violence in San Pedro Carchá, because they were the most harmed during the dispute between these neighboring communities.
Subsequently, the Public Ministry officials discovered that the conflict had originated because a man from the semi -laughed hamlet, in a state of drunkennesshe added with a White weapon To another man from the Cambayal village.