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The Minister of Defense, Carlos Holmes Trujillo, must respond to a letter sent this Thursday by the attorney general, Fernando Carrillo, in which he asks several questions about the actions of the Police in the protests that took place this Wednesday, after the death of the law student Javier Ordóñez during a police operation.
In the letter, Carrillo asked urgently report various aspects of the protocols and actions that have been taken in response to the situation.
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In the first place, the head of the Public Ministry requested information on the protocols that the Ministry of Defense has implemented so that the public forces attend to disturbances and disturbances to public order such as those on Wednesday, which left at least 8 people dead, several of them from gunshots, and more than 100 wounded.
Likewise, it asks about the preventive measures that the Ministry has arranged to address situations such as those experienced this Wednesday in Bogotá and other cities.
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The Attorney General also requested information on the instructions “that were given from the high command for the management and control of the different disturbances presented in some cities of the country.”
And on what have been the actions of the Defense portfolio in front of the uniformed men who to date have been identified as participants or allegedly responsible for the attacks and injuries caused to civilians.
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In his letter, Carrillo also mentioned the shots that were heard in the protests and that caused the death of several people, as can be seen in different videos that have circulated through networks, and asked directly if the Public Force their firearms against citizens.
Likewise, in the face of the new demonstrations that have been announced in protest of what happened, the head of the Public Ministry asked Trujillo to explain what will be “the urgent and immediate measures that the Ministry of National Defense will adopt to prevent Situations such as the one experienced on September 9 with the results that are already known, are presented again. “
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In this regard, on Thursday morning, Minister Trujillo reported that they reject the behavior of “some” agents of the Public Force that could have led to Ordóñez’s death.
However, he said that a “generalized stigmatization” could not be made against the entire Police. He added that the acts of vandalism in the midst of the protests were incited through social networks. with messages of discredit to the Police.
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