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Police woman led attack against synagogue in Caracas

The woman was caught with other 10 people, six of them police officers

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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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