What was happening in Plaza España, in the center of Bogotá? – Bogota

Moments of chaos were experienced around noon this Thursday in the town of Los Mártires, in the center of Bogotá, when the authorities carried out an operation.

In social networks, the images recorded by merchants and neighbors of the La Estanzuela sector, in the vicinity of the Plaza Spain. In the videos you can see everything: groups of people destroying cars, others assaulting food trucks, some more confronting each other with machetes and knives and a shower of stones that went from side to side.

In the streets everything was confusion. The only thing the witnesses could do was take shelter in the second floors of the buildings in the area, record and wait for everything to calm down.

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Minutes after the videos were released, the Metropolitan Police confirmed that these events occurred as a result of an operation that got out of control.

In turn, the local mayor (e) of Los Mártires, Tatiana Piñeros, reported that an operation was being carried out “in La Estanzuela, very close to Plaza España, where, thanks to citizen complaints and the presence of the Local Mayor’s Office and the Secretariat of Security has shown an increase in that sector of street habitability, consumption and sale of hallucinogenic substances “.

Piñeros indicated that in the middle of the intervention “A situation arose in which, through an incitement of these criminal gangs to street dwellers, they attacked the officials and personnel of the different entities and against the citizens.”

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However, the Local Mayor’s Office and the Police confirmed that control of the situation could be retaken.