Ariel López Aguila, a Villa Clara policewoman who suffered knife wounds on April 13 during a struggle with an alleged criminal in the municipality of Cabaretía, has been released and is now with her relatives.
Pro-government profile Maximus Romas, attached to the Ministry of the Interior (MININT), told Facebook on Tuesday that the first lieutenant who was “seriously wounded” in the “exercise of duty” has already recovered and is at home. Is.
Remember the publication that the fact, Where a Cuban died at the hands of the police“The incident occurred when the agent, while trying to arrest an alleged fugitive, was attacked by him and received multiple stab wounds that put his life in danger and required surgery.”
López Águila was patrolling with another police officer in vehicle PNR 255 when, in an attempt to arrest Henry Negrín Bolaños and Armando Prieto, described as criminals with “multiple criminal records”, one of the two subjects—its Undisclosed one stabbed the police lieutenant four times
Previously published information specified that “in an attempt to defend and disarm himself” his opponent, the police badly wounded with the same knife to his assailant.
Authorities acknowledged the Cuban death at the hands of López Águila during an attempted arrest. In June 2020, Hansel Ernesto Hernandez Galliano also died at the hands of the police in Guanabacoa. In this case, the civilian was shot by two PNR agents whom he confronted unarmed, as his relatives condemned on social networks.
In July 2022, 17-year-old Zidane Batista Álvarez, also in Villa Clara, was killed by a member of the police in the Condado neighborhood.