Senator Chris Van Hollen, who met Kilmar Abrago Garcia on Thursday (17), said that the man deported by mistake of Maryland described his deportation to El Salvador and his stay in a maximum security mega at the site.
“He told me he was first taken to Baltimore. I assume it was to the Baltimore detention center. He asked to make a telephone call from there to inform people about what had happened to him, but this opportunity was denied to him,” said Van Hollen.
The senator continued, “He said he was later taken with others from Baltimore to a detention center in Texas and, at some point – I don’t know if hours or days – was handcuffed, chained and placed on a plane where they couldn’t see by the windows.”
Van Hollen said that when Vago Garcia was taken to El Salvador’s Cecot Mega-Prison, he believes he was placed in a cell with about 25 people.
“He said he was not afraid of the other prisoners in his cell, but he was traumatized for being in Cecot and afraid of many prisoners in other cells that called him and provoked him in various ways,” he said.
Maryland’s Democrat also described a phone call with the wife of Abago Garcia, Jennifer, saying, “I told her what he told me, that it was, first of all, that he missed her and his family. And when he said that, you could see a running tear.”
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Source: CNN Brasil
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