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October 06, 2020 – 8:31 pm
Newsroom of El País
New details about the investigation into the death of Juliana Giraldo, the woman who died after being hit by a gunshot by an Army soldier in Miranda, Cauca, were released in the last hours.
Experts from the CTI of the Prosecutor’s Office determined that the shot that ended Juliana’s life was “direct and at close range,” according to sources from the investigating entity consulted by Noticias Caracol and El Tiempo.
The foregoing distorts the story of the uniformed man involved, who had claimed that his shot hit the ground and bounced off the car, fatally wounding Juliana.
The investigation by the Prosecutor’s Office, mentioned by the national media, also assures that “a checkpoint was never installed”, despite the fact that the soldiers assured that they had installed a military checkpoint on the road. “In fact, the signs required for it were not found at the site,” said a source quoted by El Tiempo.
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In fact, says Caracol, the experts found that the vehicle was not trying to flee from members of the Army, another of the things that the implicated person had mentioned in his report. According to witnesses, the uniformed men appeared in a “surprising” way on the road and rebuked the occupants of the car.
For these reasons, the Prosecutor’s Office would impute homicide charges to the 19-year-old soldier, who is currently being held in a military garrison and who underwent a psychological analysis.
“We are evaluating the Army’s order of service to impute the crime of homicide. We are evaluating what kind of homicide will be imputed to him,” said the source quoted by El Tiempo.
Likewise, it is not ruled out involving the other soldiers in the process who corroborated the version that there was a checkpoint on the road. They would be charged with the crime of perjury.
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