Óscar Pérez's mother wants to recognize the body: "If they don't allow it, for me he is alive"

The mother of Óscar Pérez, the insurgent police officer killed last week by military forces of the government of Nicolás Maduro, demanded this Saturday to recognize her son's body and bury it wherever she wants. If they don't give him permission, he said, "for me he is alive."

In a video posted on social networks, Aminta Pérez criticized that her son's body was transferred without the consent of any family member to a cemetery east of Caracas, where he was also not allowed to attend the burial.

“Who told you that I wanted my son transferred there? I want him with me, to bury him where I want,” said the Venezuelan, quoted by the AP agency. The body of the former police officer would have been buried along with the other six rebels killed in the same operation.

According to the agency, the deceased's aunt, Aura Pérez, and an opposition congresswoman announced the news of the transfer hours after the death certificate that the authorities delivered to the family was released.

The document refers to the cause of death as the product of a "severe head trauma due to a gunshot wound to the head", which has raised suspicions of a possible execution, or extrajudicial execution.

Aura had previously told the press that her nephew was taken from the morgue without her permission and taken to a cemetery to be buried privately. While giving this statement, the woman was aboard a vehicle to try to reach the cemetery where the remains would be, which were guarded by guards with anti-riot equipment.

The president of the parliamentary commission investigating the case, Delsa Solórzano, also assured that the families were not informed of the situation and pointed out that the security forces prevented the access of people close to the deceased to witness the burial.

According to the AP report, a hundred people stood at the entrance to the cemetery shouting “Oscar Pérez lives!”, where a group of soldiers blocked their path with hand shields.

The operation that ended the life of the insurgent group took place in the poor neighborhood of El Junquito, west of the Venezuelan capital. The death of Pérez, 36, was confirmed this week by the Minister of Interior Relations, who identified the group as a "terrorist cell."