Police with rifles surround the house of former Honduran president Hernández after a US extradition request.

Security forces of Honduras with assault rifles have been stationed tonight in the surroundings of the former president’s residence John Orlando Hernandezwho would have been requested in extradition by U.S.

One of the residents of the residential San Ignacio, in the east of Tegucigalpathe pro-government deputy Rasel Tomé, told journalists that the security forces had prevented him and other neighbors from entering his house, which he considered to be something irregular.

The police move came after the Honduran Foreign Ministry reported on the social network Twitter that “according to law, it has sent to the CSJ (Supreme Court of Justice) an official communication from the Embassy of the United States, requesting the formal provisional arrest of a Honduran politician for the purpose of extradition to the United States. of America”, without identifying that it was John Orlando Hernandez.

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