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This Saturday the hearing for the imputation of charges and request for an assurance measure is held in the Palace of Justice of Cali of the two people captured by the crime of five minors in the east of the capital of Valle del Cauca. Both captured, Yefferson Marcial Angulo and Juan Carlos Loaiza, presumed responsible for the incident, did not accept charges of aggravated homicide in a successive homogeneous contest with arms trafficking.
At the hearing, it was determined that four of the five murdered minors were shot in the head and only one was massacred with a sharp weapon.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, there were key interviews with a minor from the area and a worker in the cañaduzal who gave descriptions that allegedly coincided with both detainees. The Prosecutor’s Office detailed how, allegedly, they had been surrounded and trapped by the victims.
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The two detained at this time in the virtual audience.
At the hearing was the lawyer Elmer Montaña, representing Álvaro Caicedo, father of Álvaro José Caicedo, one of the minors killed and who was 14 years old.
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About 10:30 in the morning of this Saturday the hearing began.
The prosecutor pointed out that those captured “killed the minors on the property of the Las Flores farm,” in the eastern part of the city.
From now on the Prosecutor’s Office, with the collection of evidence, which in sum shows that the captured, and the third who has not been captured, committed the homicides and They agreed to fence them in the sugarcane crop
“They put them in the same place. They subdue them and force them to take a defenseless position with their faces looking down at the ground, then flee from the events leaving behind the five murdered minors,” said the Prosecutor’s Office.
This Saturday, at 10:34 in the morning, the two captured Juan Carlos Loaiza and Yéfferson Marcial Angulo appeared.
Luis Alberto Morales, substitute for lawyer Fernando Marroquín, appeared as the defender of Juan Carlos Loaiza.
The prosecutor at the hearing presented the captured: Angulo is 32 years old and was born in Magüí Payán, in Nariño. Loaiza, 25 years old and with different tattoos.
According to the Prosecutor, during the hearing for the charges, the massacre occurred at the Las Flores ranch.
The prosecutor noted that those captured with Gabriel Alejandro Bejarano (who has not been arrested because he was not at the site when the Police with the Prosecutor’s Office were going to do so) intercepted one of the minors and the other two detained the others. They were surrounded “and with their arms raised they put them in a defenseless situation with their faces towards the ground.”
During his presentation, the prosecutor in the case indicated that the detainees were co-perpetrators of the massacre of these adolescents, accused of the crime of aggravated homicide.
The prosecutor also explained that the penalties in this case would range between 44 and 60 years, which is the maximum time. He stated that the law itself indicates that there can be no reduction in penalties, because the victims in these crimes were minors.
At the hearing, at 11:02 in the morning, the two defendants Loaiza and Angulo argued that they did not understand the indictment of charges, presented by the prosecutor. Angulo managed to say that he had not murdered anyone, but the judge warned him that at this stage of the hearing, the captured have not yet spoken.
Loaiza’s defender said that to make it more understandable it is necessary to interrupt the hearing to explain the situation to the “boys.”
The judge 25 of control of guarantees indicated that the hearing on Saturday morning was briefly interrupted to make this explanation to both captured.
The judge added that the prosecutor clearly said that none of them will be entitled to reduced sentences and reiterated the reason that the victims were minors. However, he noted that in case of being convicted, they could have a reduction of the penalty for work in the prison where they are sent or for years of study.
The hearing was resumed at 11:27 in the morning of this Saturday by the judge 25 of control of guarantees.
The judge asked the two captured, Angulo and Loaiza, if they understood the prosecution’s charges and both answered yes.
The judge says they have the right not to incriminate themselves. “You have the right to know why you were captured and made available through a virtual connection.”
Judge 25 said that after the imputation of charges for aggravated homicide in successive homogeneous competition with arms trafficking, He asked them if they accepted them.
Angulo replied: “Judge, I do not accept charges, that they continue investigating the person who really did it.”
Loaiza did not accept them either.
At 11:48 in the morning, Judge 25 went on to request from the Prosecutor’s Office that the captured be imposed a security measure.
The Prosecutor’s Office pointed out that one of the bodies found in the gully had a “abdominal wound”, as well as “right side mass occipital wound”. She was wearing blue shorts and sandals.
The prosecutor said that three other youths were shot in the head, in the occipital region.
The fifth minor murdered was the only one, whose death was caused with a “knife” to the neck.
At 12:15 on the day of August 29, the prosecutor in the case said that there is a testimony that shed light on the investigation. He claimed to be a worker for a surveillance contractor company for the Mayor’s Office. This citizen was summoned to render an interview on August 26. He said that Juan Carlos Loaiza provided surveillance services to that company. This witness also claimed that Angulo operated a backhoe loader for another company.
“Are you capable of recognizing those people?” The witness was asked on August 26, according to the story told by the prosecutor at the hearing. “Yes, but only Juan Carlos and Yefferson. I have not seen ‘Mono’ again,” the prosecutor continued at the hearing when reading the witness’s testimony.
This version contradicts what the two indictees said in the hearing to legalize captures at the Palace of Justice in Cali, on the night of Friday, August 28. Both said they were not watchers of the gorge.
The testimony presented by the Prosecutor’s Office also gave a physical description of the two captured and of Gabriel Alejandro Bejarano, who was called ‘Mono’, but above all, of the first two.
The prosecutor added that this testimony made it possible to establish the body of evidence.
In that collection of the Prosecutor’s Office it was indicated that the witness heard on the radio that August 11, the day of the massacre, a person say: “I already caught it, keep it there, I’m already going up”, and another said: “I’m chasing another.” “They were three male voices.”
The testimony also showed that that day he heard people say “Things are hot, they had caught some peeled men, some guards on motorcycles and that they had weapons.”
“That voice is the same male voice of: ‘I already caught him'”, it would be the same male voice of a person who took turns of surveillance in the canyon, according to the prosecutor’s account in the same hearing that continued at 12:37 p.m. of the day of this August 28.
“They had found some dead, so I told him that suddenly it was the guards”, is also part of the key testimony that would have led to the capture of Juan Carlos Loaiza and Yefferson Marcial Angulo.
In turn, the prosecutor said that the authorities interviewed a minor who also gave testimony and that it would coincide with what the worker from the cañaduzal said.
In these interviews with these witnesses it was also collected, according to the prosecutor, that Juan Carlos Loaiza was moving on a motorcycle, but after the crime he changed the vehicle.
“Jefferson is a machinist and Gabriel Alejandro is not there, but it is necessary to refer (…) he had worked, but he spent the night in those sectors and they saw him as a barbecue on the motorcycle that Mr. Juan Carlos Loaiza was driving,” the prosecutor continued in his account .
The prosecutor, within the arguments to have charged charges against the two detainees and to request an assurance measure, also explained that the alleged links in the massacre had Motorola radios with the same frequency and “the only ones who operated those radios were vigilantes.”
The Prosecutor’s Office also questioned the two detainees.
In the interrogation of Juan Carlos Loaiza: “I came to work. I took off my helmet, I heard shortly after the ‘Mono’ Alejandro arrived, he changes his clothes, type 7:30, 8 30 the boss arrives. According to the prosecutor, Loaiza told him that at noon he was going to have lunch, that he went out on the motorcycle, that if he would bring him lunch that August 11, the day of the massacre. “I arrived at about 1:10, I modulated the ‘Mono’, since I did not see him in the first point, I modulated him on the radio (…) I take off my briefcase and leave it where always (…) Alejandro, the ‘Monkey’ modulates me at the entrance to the reed, then he says I took my motorcycle. Yefferson was on the guard. Alejandro was hiding, he pointed out to me I arrived and turned off the motorcycle. What happened there? Some Chinese are coming (…) I get on a small mountain to see who were the ones who came, they looked at the sugar cane. Yefferson says, ‘Guys, what do you do. Alejandro modulated him. Here we have the peeled ones, very careful that here they were stealing a lot. At that moment I was going to tell them but I asked a little guy how old he was and at that moment, Alejandro came out with his face covered and said: ‘Everyone on the ground, don’t look him in the face, when Alejandro detonated one of them in the head. I said: my God. I hear two more impacts. Yefferson said, ‘What did that man do?’
He also referred to the testimony to Yefferson Angulo, who also blamed Alejandro Bejarano.
The attorney general of the Nation, Francisco Barbosa, pointed out on Friday that the massacre was registered, because three men already had in their sights the five minors who used to frequent the canyon to eat cane and bathe in a lagoon of these lands, where it ends the east of Cali.
The families of the five adolescents murdered in a ravine still have questions, despite the capture of two guards as possible authors of the massacre. This Friday, August 28, relatives of the victims demanded justice in front of the Office of the Prosecutor in Cali.
CALI
