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Protesters throw objects at police officers near the Obelisk in Buenos Aires where a demonstration is being held after a man died on August 10 in police custody. Facundo Molares, an Argentinian man identified as a former FARC guerrilla from Colombia who was detained in Bolivia in 2019, after being arrested and immobilized by three police officers at a protest against Argentina's upcoming primary election. IMAGES
Police guard the entrance to a hospital in Ecuador's capital Quito where the body of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was transferred after he was shot dead as he was leaving a stadium after holding a campaign rally. The 59-year-old centrist was one of eight candidates in the first round of the country's presidential election scheduled for August 20. IMAGES
Brazilian former firefighter Maxwell Simoes Correa, suspected of involvement in the 2018 assassination of Rio de Janeiro city councilor Marielle Franco, is escorted by federal police agents upon his arrival in Brasilia, where he will remain under arrest. IMAGES
Mayor of Saint-Etienne, Gael Perdriau, mired in a case of political blackmail involving a sex tape that has shaken his city since September 2022, is placed in custody by the judicial police of Lyon. The elected official was summoned at the same time as his former private secretary Pierre Gauttieri, his former deputy Samy Kefi-Jerome and the latter's ex-partner, Gilles Rossary-Lenglet. IMAGES
A suspect in the investigation into the disappearance of a couple three months ago in the Deux-Sevres, in Western France, is being transferred from Niort to Poitiers to be presented to an examining magistrate, with a view to a possible indictment. A gendarmerie vehicle with three gendarmes on board and a person hidden under a blanket leaves the gendarmerie in Niort escorted by motorcyclists. IMAGES