Ecuadorian soccer player Pedro Pablo Parlaza He was rescued on Wednesday after being kidnapped on Sunday night along with another person who was also released, Ecuador’s National Police reported.
A photo in which he appears was also spread on social networks Pearl with his friend Juan Carlos Moralessurrounded by a group of police who managed to save them. In the photo the two victims appear to be barefoot.
The kidnapping took place on December 1 in the town of Atacames, located in Esmeraldas, a province on the northern coast of Ecuador, bordering Colombia, where he is from. Pearl.
The police commander in Esmeraldas, Diego Velasteguipointed that out Perlaza and Morales They were abducted from a building in Atacames, where upon arrival the agents were “received with bullets” by the kidnappers.
The police opened fire on the assailants and made them flee the scene, probably wounded, thus saving the lives of the two abducted persons. “They are mistreated, but alive, which is how we want to see them,” he said. Velastegui.
Agents specialized in intelligence, investigation and disappearance participated in the police operation.
During the days they remained missing, the two men were found Atacames two bodies who suggested that they were the two people who were kidnapped.
Perlaza, 33 years old, played this last season in the dolphina club where he returned this year after succeeding there in 2019 by winning the Ecuadorian Pro League, a feat he repeated in 2021 in Liga de Quito and in 2022 in Aucas.
He also wears local shirts Free Valley and Barcelonain addition to having a brief stint with the Ecuadorian team in 2022.
The loss of Pearl This occurred at a time of peak criminal violence in Ecuador, which in 2023 was the country in Latin America with the highest homicide rate, with a rate of 47.2 per 100,000 inhabitants, eight times higher than in 2016.
Source: La Verdad
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