They convict a young man who paid hitmen to kill his own father and thus keep $ 800 million

On November 13, it was learned that Juan David Peralta Murgueito accepted the charges for the aggravated murder of his father Juan Mauricio Peralta Mejía, a well-known merchant from the island of San Andrés, whom he ordered the murder of his biological father to keep his money. . The man was sentenced to 17 years and 4 months in prison.

According to Caracol Radio, Juan David Peralta paid 12 million pesos to assassinate his father on August 24. The Prosecutor’s Office found that the young man wanted to get hold of $ 800 million that belonged to the merchant.

The sentence was given thanks to the quick work of the Police and the Prosecutor’s Office who found the hitmen paid by Peralta and who had all the crime information and details to commit the patricide.

Peralta was captured in October in the Sarie Bay neighborhood of San Andrés, along with him Anthron Villa García was also detained, who was sheltered with an intramural security measure. It was learned that among those prosecuted for the crime there is a minor who was apprehended on September 10.

As established by the Prosecutor’s Office, on the day of the events the victim and her son went out to fulfill various commitments and when they were passing by the El Carmelo church they were accosted by two people, who shot Peralta Mejía in the head.

Homicide figures in 2020

Last Tuesday, December 8, President Iván Duque announced that “this year 2020, we will achieve the lowest homicide rate since 1974. There are practically 46 years of hard work to achieve this important indicator.” The president said that this meant that the Police and the Public Force “fulfill their duty (…) and that they show that it is possible, every year, to improve in our highest indicator of protecting life.”

Despite the good news, the source of which Duque did not reveal, The president’s announcement comes when there are serious complaints about the implementation of the peace agreement, which the British Parliament itself raised in one of its sessions. In 2020, a year with a quarantine of more than 7 months, there were 79 massacres reported by the Institute of Studies for Development and Peace. 340 people died in them. According to the report, Antioquia and Cauca lead this type of crime with 18 and 13 cases, respectively.

One of the best known was the Samaniego massacre, in Nariño, on August 15 at 9:30 pm in which a group of men, apparently from the ELN, murdered eight university students who were chatting in a meeting.

Among these is the murder of 10 people in Bogotá on September 9 in the midst of protests that were generated in several cities of the country due to the case of police abuse that occurred the day before against the law student, Javier Ordóñez. In it, two police officers, apparently, took the man’s life with electric charges despite the fact that he was not armed.

Another of the most high-profile cases against unarmed civilians was that of Juliana Giraldo, a trans woman who lost her life after a member of the Army shot her in the head, apparently intentionally. The events occurred on the morning of Thursday, September 24, in the rural area of ​​Miranda, Cauca, when according to official accounts a white vehicle refused to stop at a military checkpoint, which would have caused the soldiers to open fire.

The victims, including Juliana’s husband and a companionThey said that it was not even possible to speak of a checkpoint because there were no cones on the road, and no proper signaling.

Another of the data reported by Indepaz is that by the end of the year, 284 social leaders have been assassinated in the country, an increase of 34 cases more than in 2019, the year in which 250 were reported. In total, since the signing the Peace Agreement on November 24, 2016, 1,084 social leaders have died.

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