The Diocese of Matagalpa announced early Friday morning that the Nicaraguan National Police had raided the diocesan chancery, taking Bishop Rolando Álvarez and his companions into custody. A few hours later, the police reported that the bishop remains in resguardo domiciliar, that is, under police custody but in a residence belonging to his family in Managua.
The police report also claims that the raiding of the curia house took place after “patiently and prudently waiting, for days for a positive communication from the Matagualpa Diocese, which never arrived.” It also adds that, as “destabilizing and defiant actions kept on happening, the intervention was necessary to preserve the peace.”