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Elías Akl is the name of the Canadian man of Lebanese origin who died on Monday morning after being shot by hit men when he was leaving his daughter at the Mount View school in Escazú. Although authorities are investigating the motives behind his death, a new precedent came to light in the afternoon.
At the beginning of May, after an alert about several heavily armed subjects, officers of the Public Force, with personnel from Special Operations Forces and the GAO, intervened Nova Bar, located in Los Yoses, San José.
According to Carlos Hidalgo, a spokesman for the Ministry of Public Security,
when we stopped him in San Pedro outside the bar … He showed a fake passport. The document he presented was Israeli.”
At that time, authorities approached about 150 people and after a series of reviews, they seized four firearms and ammunition, including M-16 assault rifle bullets.