San Salvador .- A special court in San Salvador today convicted 11 gang members involved in the assassination of Franco-Spanish journalist Christian Poveda barely 4 to 30 years imprisonment, court sources said. El Centro Judicial Isidro Menendez explained in a statement that the Special Court of Judgement condemned to Luis Vasquez and Jose Alejandro Melara to 30 years in prison for the crime of "aggravated homicide" and "incitement and conspiracy the crime of aggravated homicide" , respectively.
The trial installed last Monday against 31 suspected gang members involved in the journalist's death, concluded today with a sentence of 20 years in prison for Geraldina Keyri Mayorga, considered "not necessary accomplice." While other 8 defendants, including former police officer John Napoleon Espinoza Perez, who said the journalist betrayed the gang to the authorities, received a sentence of 4 years in prison.
The bulletin indicates that representatives of the Office welcomed the ruling against the perpetrators and masterminds of the murder because "these people already have certain convictions" and will "most of their lives in prison." "Although the court only sentenced 11 defendants, the remaining 31 defendants are serving as punishment for various offenses and, in fact, 15 days ago some of them were convicted of illegal groups," said the bulletin.
On September 2, 2009 Poveda was killed in a rural area near the colony "The Campanera" it in for 16 months photojournalist lived with the gang Mara-18, star of his film "La vida loca ". Investigations revealed that the gang with which the documentary worked Poveda rumor that it was police informant.
Following this, the gang took the decision to assassinate him as he was summoned, and dragged him from his truck and shot him in the face with 38-caliber guns and 9 mm. Poveda's murder sent shock waves through El Salvador, where the president, Mauricio Funes, called the vile crime while abroad also was condemned by governments like France and organizations of journalists. 
The trial installed last Monday against 31 suspected gang members involved in the journalist's death, concluded today with a sentence of 20 years in prison for Geraldina Keyri Mayorga, considered "not necessary accomplice." While other 8 defendants, including former police officer John Napoleon Espinoza Perez, who said the journalist betrayed the gang to the authorities, received a sentence of 4 years in prison.
The bulletin indicates that representatives of the Office welcomed the ruling against the perpetrators and masterminds of the murder because "these people already have certain convictions" and will "most of their lives in prison." "Although the court only sentenced 11 defendants, the remaining 31 defendants are serving as punishment for various offenses and, in fact, 15 days ago some of them were convicted of illegal groups," said the bulletin.
On September 2, 2009 Poveda was killed in a rural area near the colony "The Campanera" it in for 16 months photojournalist lived with the gang Mara-18, star of his film "La vida loca ". Investigations revealed that the gang with which the documentary worked Poveda rumor that it was police informant.
Following this, the gang took the decision to assassinate him as he was summoned, and dragged him from his truck and shot him in the face with 38-caliber guns and 9 mm. Poveda's murder sent shock waves through El Salvador, where the president, Mauricio Funes, called the vile crime while abroad also was condemned by governments like France and organizations of journalists.
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