CARACAS, Monday February 09, 2009 | Update
Country
The investigations conducted by officers of the Department
against Theft of the Scientific and Criminal Investigation
Force (Cicpc) into the attack against a synagogue in Caracas
last January 30 concluded that a police detective woman of
the Cicpc, attached to the Homicide Department, led the actions
against the synagogue.
The woman was arrested during the early hours of Sunday,
as well as other 10 people, six of them officers of the Caracas
Metropolitan Police. Her name is Yadira Torres, and she will
be taken to the court the Attorney General Office may designate
for the relevant preliminary proceedings, together with the
rest of the defendants.
Cristian Quijada, the 41st prosecutor will be in charge of
accusing the alleged perpetrators of the attack.
According to a report provided by sources of the Cicpc, the
attack was due, unofficially, to the fact that one of the
defendants, Edgar Alexander Cordero, an officer of the Metropolitan
Police who was also a bodyguard of one of the rabbis of the
synagogue, asked him for a loan and when the rabbi refused,
Cordero decided to plan the robbery of the synagogue, since
he thought that the safes had plenty of money.

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