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In compliance with the order of the Superior Court of Bogotá, which concluded that the statements he made two weeks ago were not in line with what the Supreme Court of Justice ordered, the Minister of Defense, Carlos Holmes Trujillo, apologized for “the excesses of the Public Force ”in the November 2019 demonstrations.
The minister’s pronouncement took place in the middle of a debate on a motion of censure, in which one of the issues that questioned him This was what the opposition called a “contempt” of the order of the Supreme Court of Justice to ask for forgiveness for the events that occurred in November 2019, when attacks were recorded by members of Esmad.
In compliance with judgment STC7641 of September 22, 2020 of the Supreme Court of Justice, with filing 11001-22-03-000-2019-02527-02, and the Order issued today October 7, 2020 by the Civil Chamber of the Tribunal of Bogotá, the Minister of Defense is allowed to reiterate: pic.twitter.com/x3t9O0EAoN
– Mindefensa (@mindefensa) October 8, 2020
“I would like to reiterate that in compliance with the judgment of the Supreme Court of Justice and the order of the Superior Court of Bogotá, I apologize for the excesses of the Public Force during the protests as of November 21, 2019,” Trujillo said.
(See also: Court gives the Ministry of Defense one day to apologize)
Before the Court’s decision was known, this Wednesday, during the political control debate against the Minister of Defense, Trujillo assured that he had lost forgiveness. “Yes I asked: product of my conscience, spontaneous and I did it in light of what was happening”.
But the Court ruling agrees with those who questioned the Ministry of Defense and said that his “reiteration” of the act of forgiveness was not a fulfillment of what the Supreme Court of Justice had told him, therefore, the Civil Chamber of the Court Superior of Bogotá ordered him to offer public apologies “in the precise terms in which it was provided in the operative part of the aforementioned ruling.”
Motion of censure
Despite the fact that the opposition sectors reiterated their accusations to the Minister of Defense, Carlos Holmes Trujillo, for the cases of abuse of force by the police and military and The possible contempt for a ruling of the Supreme Court of Justice in which he was ordered to apologize for the actions of Esmad, the majorities in the House of Representatives closed ranks around the official during the debate on the motion of censure.
Next Tuesday, at 2 pm, the Chamber will vote on the motion of no confidence. On that day it will be defined whether the minister may continue in office or not.
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