A preliminary criminal investigation has been launched concerning the attack by Cuban diplomats on demonstrators in Washington.
By Paul M. Rodriguez, Editor. Insight Magazine. 6/2/00
The U.S. attorney’s office in the District of Columbia has launched a preliminary criminal investigation into the role Cuban diplomats played in an April 14 attack on an Elian Gonzalez protest. Some of the diplomats who charged out of their compound in downtown Washington to confront the
protesters were identified and named by Insight on May 29 from photographs taken at the scene (see "Cuban Diplomats Fight 'Hand-to-Hand Combat' Against Demonstrators," Insight Webwire, April 21, "Castro Agents Allowed to Break Law With Impunity," news alert!, May 22 and "Cuban
Officials Named in Protest Beatings," news alert!, May 29).
U.S. Secret Service and the Washington Metropolitan Police Department reports describing how Cuban officials carried out the assult on the protesters gathered outside the Cuban Interests Section at the Swiss Embassy also are being studied by the U.S. attorney’s office, which actively is
seeking to confirm the identities of the diplomats Insight named.
Some of the demonstrators who were beaten in the confrontation have filed formal complaints. As accredited diplomats, the Cubans are immune from criminal prosecution.
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