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Buitrago, who was driving the small truck that hit the cyclist José Antonio Duarte, was linked to the process for wrongful death, but will face the trial in freedom, reported Noticias Caracol.
That outlet detailed that Buitrago’s freedom was established after the Prosecutor’s Office will withdraw the request for an assurance measure against the individual, who was recorded on video during the accident in which he rammed Duarte and made him fall into the void (a 12-meter fall that ended the life of the cyclist).
“The Prosecutor’s Office considered that this subject, despite the fact that he escaped from the scene of the events once he caused the death of Don José Duarte, does not represent a danger to society,” said Saúl León, the victim’s lawyer, in dialogue with that informative.
The lawyer added, in that newscast, that in the almost two months of the process against the driver of the small truck, the only advance has been that the Prosecutor’s Office charged the crime of wrongful death. However, for the lawyer, this could have been done from the first day the facts were known in which he died cyclist and Buitrago was captured.
León said in that medium that this type of action by the Prosecutor’s Office leads to acts of “impunity” continue to be committed and made reference to the recent episode in which the driver of a truck ran over 3 cyclists in La Ceja, Antioquia, and subsequently escaped.
Despite the fact that the subject was not sent to jail, it will continue to be linked to the judicial process for what happened Cundinamarca, concluded Noticias Caracol.
The penalty that Buitrago could face
The penal code indicates that people prosecuted for wrongful death face a penalty of between 32 and 108 months in prison, that is, between two years and eight months and nine years.
As it became known on October 14, the driver is not the owner of the van that ran over Don José Antonio. That day it was known that truck owners feared for their safety since they did not know what could happen when the vehicle was delivered to them, which after the accident was immobilized and taken to the yards.
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