Ecuador's ex-VP Glas evacuated from prison after attempted killing, lawyer says

6/1/2025 13:34

Ecuador's former Vice President Jorge Glas was returned to prison hours after he was temporarily evacuated for security reasons amid chaotic scenes inside the jail, the country's prison authority said on Sunday.



Earlier in the day, Glas' lawyer, Sonia Gabriela Vera, said the former vice president had been evacuated from La Roca prison after an attempt on his life by mutinying inmates. She said the government was responsible for the situation. Prisoners caused incidents "in a clear strategy to destabilize order and peace in the country," the Ecuadorian prison agency SNAI said in a statement published on X. It added that Glas was taken back to prison after the armed forces carried out weapons and explosives control operations.



Earlier, Glas' lawyer Vera called for the United Nations and other international organizations to intervene after what she called an "attempted assassination" of Glas.



The attack "is the result of a State that has condemned him to danger, torture and slow death," Vera said on X.