Police, Prosecutors and Courts Complicit in Impunity System – reports

THERE IS  complicity between the justice system the police, and the Public Ministry giving police impunity say civil bodies and Indigenous communities which are calling for change.

 In an article published November 1, La Estrella points to killings of demonstrators in Changuinola , San Felix and Colon where cases have been withdrawn by prosecutors creating what  the paper calls “crimes without blame or punishment.”

In Colon The Frente Amplio by Columbus ( FAC ) confirmed that the MP asked of proceedings for the deaths of five people, including a nine year in November 2012 , because the prosecutor could not figure out which police fired . In San Felix case the case has been closed ' for now ' . At the time Estrella published a photo of a police officer firing into an unarmed group of indigenous protestors. A teenager was killed,
In Colon one thing leads to another . :The MP says it is the judiciary . but they are accomplices of impunity"  says FAC leader Felipe Cabezas  and that , he  says, will happen in San Carlos.where police killed two children last week.

The FAC  has joined the voices calling for the repeal of Law 74 governing police impunity .
The investigations of the assassinations in Colon and San Felix have a bitter thing in common: they have all been closed temporarily because the Public Ministry (MP ) could never find which masked police officers fired the guns that killed in the name of the ' rule of law ' says La Estrella

The seven cases that have surfaced since early 2012 ended in provisional dismissal requests with no charges. No one politically, or directly was responsible . A report of the institution notes : “the 'National Police units wore helmets and masks so you cannot recognize who was the person ( shooter ) ”.
In Colon, where there were protests against the sale of land in the Free Zone, the FAC claims that even with evidence , the prosecution has decided to wait to for a 'proof' that points to the murderers of citizens who demanded the government repeal of Law 72 .
Antonio Bradley , a lawyer concerned with the records of deaths in Colon, says judicial courts have had no qualms in granting the claims of the prosecutors who investigated the killings.
The Judiciary accepted the views of the Third and Fourth Prosecution for dismissal.
Bradley , says he does not understand the reasons for the decision when tests had been recorded.
In Colon members of the military style unit Senafront, armed with machine guns were used for crowd control
“ The prosecution and the judiciary are complicit in this case . . . of impunity ' , says Felipe Cabezas.
The Colonenses have joined the  Ngäbe Indians in recognising  that the police act with impunity and fear that,just as with them , the State will turn its back on the parents of two children shot dead by secret agents of the National Police in San Carlos last week . This has revived the debate on police impunity and the immeasurable limits of the Law 74 of 2010 , a rule that , shields units being investigated for abuse of power .
Lawyers have projected that the decision to separate six agents investigated in the San Carlos case and ordering a remand  could knock down the process and set them free
In the same vein , the defense of the police involved in the case of children burned to death in Tocumen (while watching police guards were filmed laughing and yelling “burn,burn"  have lodged an appeal with the Court to obtain their release.

The La Estrella article gives graphic details of the deaths of Indigenous protesters, claiming authorities turned a blind eye to reports of theirs own Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences ehich contradicted police reports but Prosecutor 66 requested the closure on July 31 , and it expected since the First Superior Court eill give thatruling.
Civil Society groups, the Ngabe and the FAC in Colon have asked the Ministry of Educationfor  non-participation of the public security sectors patriotic parades .
Last year militaristic units in camouflage  dress and carrying machine guns marched in parades in Panama City.