A Salvadoran immigrant expelled by mistake and then brought back to the United States after months of judicial guerrilla warfare ensures that he had been beaten and subject to psychological tortures during his incarceration in his country, according to court documents deposited by his lawyers.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia, 30, currently imprisoned in the United States where he is accused of having transported illegal migrants, spent several months in a high security prison in Salvador after his expulsion with more than 250 men, most of them suspected of belonging to a Venezuelan gang.
His case has become emblematic of the opposition between federal justice and the administration of Donald Trump about his massive expulsion policy.
The American president erected the fight against illegal immigration in absolute priority and communicates abundantly about the expulsions of immigrants.
Mr. Abrego Garcia “was subjected to important ill -treatment upon his arrival in CECOT [Centre de confinement du terrorisme, NDLR]including violent blows, sleep deprivation, unsuitable food and psychological torture, “said his lawyers in a document given to a Maryland court (east) where this Salvadoran, married to an American, usually resided.
He assures that at their arrival, “him and 20 other Salvadorians were forced to stay on his knees about 9 p.m. and 6 a.m., with supervisors hitting those who fell from fatigue”. Meanwhile, “he was not allowed to go to the toilet and defiled himself”.
The prisoners were kept in overcrowded cells without windows and with artificial lighting 24 hours a day, according to lawyers who say that their customer lost 14 kilos during the first two weeks of his imprisonment.
Currently in detention in Tennessee (South), where he was prosecuted for migrant traffic, Kilmar Abrego Garcia had asked in late June to stay in prison for fear of being expelled again as soon as he was released.
