Bassil Da Costa

[3][4] An hour after the march ended, clashes occurred in the La Candelaria Parish; protesters armed with rocks, bottles, fireworks and slingshots skirmished with authorities who responded with tear gas.[5] On 13 February 2014, President Nicolás Maduro said Da Costa and Montoya were killed by the same person and that the murders were part of the "violence generated by the opposition".The secretary of the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD), the opposition coalition, Ramón Guillermo Aveledo, rejected President Maduro's statements and maintained the protesters were not ill-intended, while hinting at possible government infiltrates in the march.[6] The first investigations made by the Cuerpo de Investigaciones Científicas, Penales y Criminalísticas (CICPC) identified at least three members of the Bolivarian Intelligence Service (SEBIN) who had shot against protesters near the Public Ministry offices the day of the march, amongst them the alleged killer of Da Costa.[7] Days later, Últimas Noticias published the results of an investigative work on the murders, in which it claimed to have discovered both men in uniform and civilians had shot against the protesters on 12 February.
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