Ecuador, Loffredo denies forced disappearance and announces sanction against judge

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The Minister of Defense, Gian Carlo Loffredo, appeared on national television to again support the Armed Forces, rejecting the accusations of forced disappearance following the habeas corpus granted by Judge Tanya Loor Zambrano. teleSUR

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00:00In Ecuador, the families of the four minors killed by a military patrol in Guayaquil were

00:04waiting for an apology from the Ministry of Defense.

00:07Instead, the judge in the case received a threat.

00:10Defense Minister Giancarlo Lofero called a national press conference to express support

00:14for the armed forces again.

00:16Lofero had assured that there was no operation until the cameras showed it.

00:20He also said that children were stealing, which was never proved, and blamed their parents

00:25for not taking care of them.

00:27In this context, the government threatens Judge Tan Yalur Sombrano, assuring that the

00:30qualification of forced disappearance is unfair.

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