Members of security forces walk outside local TV station TC following Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa's visit a after hooded and armed people took over the studio during a live broadcast, in Guayaquil, Ecuador, January 12, 2024. REUTERS/Henry Romero/File Photo
QUITO (Reuters) - A judge in Ecuador on Wednesday authorized the inclusion of an alleged gang leader as a person of interest in the investigation into the violent storming of a television station last month, the attorney general's office said.
Heavily armed gunmen took over a studio at public broadcaster TC during a live broadcast in January, part of a wave of violence that pushed President Daniel Noboa to declare 22 criminal groups terrorists and military targets."A judge of the judicial unit for crimes related to corruption ... issues a new preventive detention order against Willian Joffre A. B., this time for the crime of terrorism," the attorney general's office said in a message on X.
