SAN JOSE, Costa Rica– Costa Rican authorities claimed Friday they had actually apprehended 4 individuals about the murder in June of a retired Nicaraguan army policeman and forthright movie critic of Head of state Daniel Ortega.
Roberto Samcam, 67, was shot dead on the early morning of June 19 when cops claimed a guy entered his condo complicated in the northeast of the Costa Rican funding, San Jose.
The retired significant was fired several times with a 9mm gun, according to Costa Rica’s Judicial Investigations company. The shooter got away.
Samcam had actually been residing in expatriation because July 2018 when paramilitaries attacked his home in Nicaragua.
The company claimed Friday its representatives executed 3 raids in which they caught 3 individuals in a location on the north side of San Jose. One more suspect was apprehended Thursday in the city of Cañas in Guanacaste district, west of the funding.
Company supervisor Randall Zúñiga claimed among those apprehended was apparently an intermediary that arranged the others. One more was the claimed 20-year-old shooter and a 3rd was a chauffeur.
The intermediary’s sweetheart was additionally captive.
Zúñiga claimed authorities had actually still not identified that masterminded the murder or if there was any kind of participation to anybody outside Costa Rica.
He claimed that there were resemblances in between Samcam’s murder and a tried murder in 2024 of Joao Salgado, an additional Nicaraguan resistance number. Salgado was fired a number of times, however endured and implicated a cell of Nicaragua’s Sandinista National Freedom Front of obligation.
In both instances, the awesomes made use of a chauffeur from the very same area and assaults were executed in a “awkward method,” Zúñiga claimed.
Numerous hundreds of Nicaraguans have actually looked for sanctuary in Costa Rica because Ortega punished extensive objections in 2018.
In 2020, Samcam acted as a specialist for the Court of Principles, arranged by Costa Rica’s Arias Structure for Tranquility and Human Development, to gather testament of those that experienced torment and various other misuses through the Nicaraguan federal government.
He released a publication in 2022– Ortega: El calvario de Nicaragua’ (Ortega: Nicaragua’s torture)– and in 2014 released an additional message explaining thoroughly exactly how he viewed Ortega develop a tyranny.
Because squashing the 2018 objections, Nicaragua’s federal government has actually methodically sought any kind of voice of resistance. The federal government has actually shut thousands of nongovernmental companies and maltreated spiritual teams, consisting of the Catholic church.
