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According to the authorities, that could not happen without the guards’ knowledge. Dozens of them have been arrested. They are interviewed later.
A large proportion of those who escaped from Pedro Juan Caballero prison, near the Brazilian border, were members of the notorious drug gang Primer Comando de la Capital (PCC), police commissioner Elena Andrada said.
This mainly concerns Paraguayans and Brazilians. “They dug a tunnel, with lighting, from the sanitary blocks,” it sounded.
“Long prepared”
The Paraguayan Justice Minister, Cecilia Perez, is convinced that the detainees have received help: “It was a job of a few weeks. It is clear that the staff was informed but nothing was done. “
The prison director has since been fired. More redundancies may follow after the interrogations.
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