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A month after the death of Javier Ordóñez due to an act of police brutality during an operation in Villa Luz, in Engativá, Maura Dotti, the ex-partner of this law student, speaks for the first time with a media outlet. He states that he had stood aside out of respect for Javier’s family and in order not to interfere in the case against the police officers accused of having caused the death of his partner in the last five years.
This woman from Bogotá, who insists that she wants to keep a little low profile, agreed to talk to EL TIEMPO about her partner and what he was like in life. However, he refrained from commenting on the investigation and the events that occurred in the early hours of September 9.
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He says that Javier was a supremely happy person. His laughter could be heard from several meters away, in a characteristic way. “We lived on the fifth floor and I heard him laugh in the parking lot of the group,” he recalls.
He says that the best way to describe Javier is by the nickname Ñeñé, given him by his friend Manuel. “He was a child in the body of a man,” says Maura, for the smiles, mischief and innocence with which she faced life.
This version is supported by Lorena Segura, Javier’s close friend, who also points out that, Since the tragic death of the 42-year-old law student, the neighborhood has remained in a kind of tense calm, as if divided into two camps.
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“Santa Cecilia is a neighborhood where many officers and former police officers live. A large part of us, Javier’s friends, are their children ”, he confesses. Lorena emphasizes this because she feels that public opinion has shown them as enemies of authority. Which, he says, is not true.
In fact, it ensures that “We have deep respect for the police, but we are very hurt”. It is for that reason that, as he explains, they decided to fire him in a much more intimate way.
Dotti recalls that eight days after the tragic death of her partner, the closest family and friends, about 20 people, made an appointment at a restaurant. At the place, the attendees arrived wearing a white shirt with the message of ‘Justice for Javier’. There they offered a prayer in his honor and toasted a few words in his memory, while listening to music by Enrique Bunbury and Rafael Orozco, Javier’s favorite artists.
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Dotti explains that she could barely contain crying. Many memories came to mind, such as the plan they had to travel to Spain, for Javier to do a specialization and visit his mother, who lived in Barcelona.
Those memories a few days later they took Javier Ordóñez’s friends to contact an urban artist to paint graffiti in the Santa Cecilia park, the place where he met his friends. That night, accompanied by a cultural event, they immortalized his face on a wall.
Lorena remembers that Javier was very passionate about the law and that his life revolved around his children, the study and Mona, as they say to Dotti, the woman with whom he shared in recent years. “He got up very determined to study English, because that was the last requirement to graduate,” says the friend.
Dotti recalls that her partner had a unique empathy for children. He even saw him cry sometimes for acts of injustice against them. One of the reasons he was studying law was to stop such arbitrariness, he says. She now regrets that life has turned Javier around and today it is his family members who wait for justice to act.
What did the coroner who did the autopsy say
Yesterday morning, the disciplinary trial continued at the Attorney General’s Office against police patrols Harby Damián Rodríguez and Juan Camilo Lloreda for abuse of authority and murder of Javier Ordóñez. In the session, the forensic doctor Francisco José Calle Rúa was heard, who did the autopsy. He said that the outbreak of the right kidney that Ordóñez suffered was the result of a powerful impact. And the left one, although it did not burst, did have broken blood vessels. Trauma to his kidneys led to massive blood loss that “eventually” caused his death. Kidney damage caused about 3.5 liters of blood to stop circulating in the body, loss for which a person could not survive more than an hour, according to the doctor. All these traumas, the expert stressed, could not be self-inflicted, but caused by third parties. The coroner also spoke about the injuries that they observed in the body related to the use of the taser weapon, injuries that are of two types: sharp marks from the harpoons, and hemorrhagic marks. They counted two injuries in the abdomen, two near the navel, two under the ribs, two in the right lumbar back, two in the lumbar region near the buttock; with which in total there were “between 8 and 10 lesions with irregular distance, which seems to be related to the shape of the wires,” he said. In addition, he had splinters on his right leg, apparently from a firearm.
ANDRÉS FELIPE ORJUELA
