Topic: Christian Poveda
The Mara Salvatrucha and the Mara-18, two violent street gangs with operations that span from Central America into the United States, issued a statement here announcing an end to violence." The relatives said they were key in brokering the agreement, and mentioned ...
Police in El Salvador say gang killed French filmmaker because of documentaryPolice in El Salvador arrested 10 more gang members Wednesday in the September killing of French journalist Christian Poveda, and said he was apparently killed because he showed gang members committing ...
El Salvadoran police have arrested three gang members in connection with the slaying of filmmaker Christian Poveda, a journalist who had covered the gang problem and was shot dead on Sept. 2. Poveda spent 16 months with gang members to make the ...
Four suspects, including a policeman, have been arrested over Franco-Spanish journalist Christian Poveda's murder in El Salvador, police said, indicating the killing was ordered by a jailed gang member. "After an investigation, four people have been detained for involvement in the ...
Salvadoran police arrest 4 suspected gang members, 1 officer in French filmmaker's killingFour alleged gang members and a police officer have been arrested in the slaying of French documentary filmmaker Christian Poveda, Salvadoran authorities said Wednesday.Howard Cotto, subdirector of investigations ...
Salvadoran police arrested a man suspected of involvement in the murder a day earlier of a high-profile Franco-Spanish journalist who had been investigating violent drug gangs.Christian Poveda, 54, was found dead near his vehicle on a road north of the capital ...
Police have arrested a member of the feared Mara 18 gang in the killing of Franco-Spanish journalist Christian Poveda whose film on gangs was to debut this month, sources close to the probe said.The arrest was made Thursday near the area ...
El Salvador arrests gang member in killing of French filmmaker who documented lives of 'Maras'Christian Poveda spent years documenting El Salvador's Mara 18 street gang, practically living among its members while filming initiations, drug use, tattoo sessions and funerals.Authorities ...
A Franco-Spanish journalist has been assassinated in El Salvador just weeks before the release of his latest documentary on violent gangs that run drug and extortion rackets in the country.Christian Poveda, 54, was found shot to death Wednesday near his vehicle ...
A Franco-Spanish journalist has been assassinated in El Salvador just weeks before the release of his latest documentary on violent gangs that run drug and extortion rackets in this Central American country.Christian Poveda, 54, was found shot to death Wednesday near ...