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In an interview with Semana, the mayor accused the national government of resorting to “the hackneyed strategy of guerrillaizing everything to justify the unjustifiable“, Referring to the violent police reaction to the attack on the CAIs in Bogotá.
López stressed that the case of Javier Ordóñez “was the straw that broke the glass on the systematic police abuse”, and what caused the demonstrations, which in many cases led to riots, was not the ELN: “If the national government had information that the ELN was going to take over Bogotá, which is basically what it is saying, why did not deliver it? ”, he reiterated.
And it is that the mayor repeated that she has never had any indication of that possibility, that it was even ruled out by members of that insurgent group, although she recognized that 6 people have been prosecuted “who made vandalism in Bogotá and who apparently have links with FARC dissidents”.
“The Eln, that I know, has never taken anything by stone and stick,” said the capital’s president. “The eln, the day he carried out an operation in Bogotá, came and killed 23 policemen, I want to remember. That is what the ELN does ”, he added.
“The capture of the CAI was not by bullet. It was mainly with acts of vandalism, stone, with homemade weapons, but incendiary. If it had been the ELN, we would have how many dead police officers. The Eln does not walk with sticks and stonesHe added.
López had already been criticized for her positions regarding the participation of armed groups in the demonstrations in the capital, which in some cases he recognized, but now discards. Some even came to compare it for this reason with the ‘Chimoltrufia’ for its famous phrase “as I say one thing, I say the other”, but also with the comedian ‘Cantinflas’, marking his statements as “absurd and incongruous”.
Finally, he returned scathing criticism of the government’s thesis: “In Paris, where there is no ELN, the yellow vest protests have set fire to places, then why? In the United States, where there is no Eln, there were fires in 10 cities due to the George Floyd case, “he said.
For Claudia López, both cases are related to what happened in Colombia because the cause was “systematic police abuse and systematic impunity, proven by the same case of Javier Ordóñez“.
“The George Floyd case sparked violent protests with the burning of police stations. The Minneapolis police station, that’s like twice the Mebog [Policía Metropolitana de Bogotá]It was left in ashes, and there is no Eln there, okay? ”, he concluded.
This was the segment of the interview in which López spoke about the subject:
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