US EditionSenior Judge Fatally Shot in Bolivia
- Victor Hugo Claure, dean of Bolivia's Agro-Environmental Court, was fatally shot near midnight while driving in Santa Cruz de la Sierra by hitmen on a motorcycle, suffering a fatal torso wound and hypovolemic shock.
- Security footage showed two men on a motorcycle following Claure's vehicle; one shooter fired at close range.
- Authorities launched a police operation and formed a commission to identify the perpetrators, but the attackers remain at large.
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The Bolivian Police has activated "security capsules" to protect 13 high magistrates of the country, after the shooting murder in the eastern region of Santa Cruz of the judge of the Agroenvironmental Court Victor Hugo Claure, when he was inside a taxi, for cases that are being investigated, according to the departmental police commander in that locality, Colonel David Gómez, along with the prosecutor of that region, Alberto Zeballos. Continue r…
The dean of the Agro-Environmental Court of Bolivia, Victor Hugo Claure, was killed in the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, in an armed attack perpetrated by unknown persons, according to judicial authorities. According to preliminary records, the magistrate was intercepted by several people travelling on a motorcycle, who shot him repeatedly before he escaped. As a result of the severity of his injuries, he died shortly after the attack. The cr…
A high Bolivian magistrate was shot dead in the city of Santa Cruz (east) while on a taxi, announced Friday, 1 May, the police who decided to strengthen the security of 13 other judges. The murder occurred during the night of 30 April to 1 May. He is under investigation.
A high-level judge in Bolivia was shot dead in the city of Santa Cruz, in the east of the country, while inside a taxi, informed the police on Friday, adding that he ordered reinforcement in the security of 13 other high-level magistrates. The crime, whose motives are being investigated, occurred on Thursday night. The victim was identified as Victor Hugo Clare, judge of the Agroenvironmental Court, the highest judicial body in the field of envi…
Bolivia's agro-environmental court judge shot dead amid wave of drug-related violence
Víctor Hugo Claure, dean of Bolivia's Agro-Environmental Court, was shot dead late Thursday in the eastern city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra, in what authorities describe as an attack carried out by hitmen and which falls within a sequence of violent events linked to the growing influence of drug trafficking in the country's main city. The killing has prompted unanimous condemnation from the judicial system and from opposition politicians, and pose
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