Drug trafficker Fabricio Colón Pico, leader of the Los Lobos gang, who escaped from prison this week, has announced that he intends to turn himself in. President Daniel Noboa reacted by claiming that he will be treated like a terrorist. “Let him give up if he wants to” he has declared.
Pico was serving a prison sentence in the Andean city of Riobamba. He was chosen for directing a plan to attack the attorney general, Diana Salazar.
In a video circulating on social networks, Colón Pico introduces himself, underlines today’s date and warns Noboa that he has not “Nothing to hide.”
“I want to surrender, Mr President, I fled because they told me they would kill me, my life is in danger, for no other reason. Understand, Mr President, you guarantee my life, that nothing will happen to me and I I surrender, Mr. President,” says the criminal.
Pico fled hours after the leader of Ecuador’s other major drug gang, Los Choneros, Adolfo “Fito” Macías, was believed to be the most dangerous criminal in the country.
“One must treat terrorists like terrorists and we will act firmly. If he wants to surrender, no one is stopping him from surrendering if he wants to,” said Noboa, who this week ordered the Armed Forces to fight the cartels.
The drug leader assured that he “had nothing to do” with what he is accused of.
The president responded: “Imagine, I also have others who have kidnapped people and “they want to join the Treaty of Geneva.”
The sovereign stated that Ecuador “He is already fed up with criminals setting the conditions. The conditions are set by good people, the conditions are set by Ecuadorian families, the Government sets them, the State sets them, criminals don’t set them.”
Source: Clarin
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