Military Criminal Justice transferred the case of Javier Ordóñez to the ordinary justice



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The Directorate of Military Criminal Justice reported that an office from this jurisdiction decided to refer to the Attorney General’s Office the actions it was carrying out in the case of the death of Javier Ordóñez, which occurred on the night of Wednesday, September 9 at the hands of two policemen, according to the videos recorded during the “police operation”.

The military judge made that decision because, “according to that office, the evidence collected so far does not allow to affirm that it is an act that is related to the service.”

Thus, the Office of the Attorney General of the Nation will be the one who investigates in the ordinary courts the conducts in which the seven police officers prosecuted could have incurred.

At the moment, the investigating body has not received the file or delegated to a prosecutor for this case.

It should be remembered that after the events that claimed the life of Ordóñez, hundreds of citizens came out to protest in Bogotá and the main cities of the country and after vandalism at least 13 more people died, 450 were injured between civilians and police.

Police abuse will go to Congress

Precisely this situation will be the reason for a debate to which the Minister of Defense, Carlos Holmes Trujillo, is invited this Tuesday in the Senate plenary session.

In this regard, Arturo Char, president of Congress, stated that “in order to evaluate the public order situation, due to the death of Javier Ordóñez, I have assigned five senators from different parties to form an Accidental Commission to present a report to the Senate plenary next Tuesday, September 15 ”.

The designated senators Luis Fernando Velasco Cháves, of the Liberal party; Ernesto Macías Tovar, Democratic Center; Efraín Cepeda Saravia, Conservative Party; Juan Luis Castro Córdoba, Green Alliance and Jorge Luis Pérez Oyuela, Radical Change. They are preparing a report on the difficult public order situation that is taking place.

And in Commission II, at the request of the president of the same, the conservative senator Juan Diego Gómez will speak about it

with the Director of the Police, the Director of Citizen Security, the Inspector General of the National Police, the Director of Human Talent and the Director of the Metropolitan Police of Bogotá.



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