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Three citizens of possible Venezuelan origin are wanted in the country’s capital and for them a reward of $ 20 million is offered for having killed with a knife in the middle of a robbery last Thursday, at 10 in the morning, to Osvaldo Muñoz, 41 years old, waiter and messenger, in facts recorded within a Transmilenio bus that traveled on Avenida Caracas with Calle 85, one of the busiest sectors in the north of Bogotá.
The crime, what outraged the citizens, which is the first to be registered within an article in the two decades that the system has been in existence and which is in line with the 1% increase in the crime of homicide in the capital, was reviewed by the district authorities in a local government council in the southern town of Kennedy.
There, Mayor Claudia López made a statement that has been strongly criticized by users of the networks who call it xenophobic and discriminatory.
“I do not want to stigmatize, nor was it lacking, the VenezuelansBut there are some immigrants involved in criminality who are making our lives out of squares. Here, whoever comes to earn a decent living, welcome, but whoever comes to commit a crime should be deported without contemplation, ”said the capital’s president.
One of the criticisms was received from Tomás Guanipa, ambassador of the head of the Venezuelan Parliament Juan Guaidó in Colombia, who rejected his statements and indicated that “in the face of the unfortunate and unacceptable statements by Claudia Lópewith It is appropriate to recall what the director of Migración Colombia, where it ensures that 96% of crimes in Colombia are committed by Colombian citizens and only 0.8% of those detained in the country are Venezuelans.
The president was also questioned by the president of the Bogotá Council, Carlos Fernando Galán, who assured that “under conditions as adverse as the ones we are living in, pointing out Venezuelans for insecurity is” the easiest way out “and said that this is a” petty and dangerous “act.
Juan Francisco Espinosa, Director of Migration Colombia, said yesterday that of the almost 100,000 deprived of liberty in the countryAccording to INpec figures, a little more than 2,700 are foreign citizens and of these 1,500 are Venezuelan citizens.
However, the migrant who commits crimes, said the official, “He will receive the same treatment as Colombians in accordance with the provisions of the penal code.”
“Crime on the street is unacceptable, no matter where it comes from. If someone commits a crime, they must be prosecuted without asking where it comes from. The origin has nothing to do with crime, “he said.
In other words, according to official data, migration is not responsible for crime in Colombia. “The most serious crimes such as terrorism, kidnapping, homicides, among others, are not committed by Venezuelans.”
Along the same lines, the Border Manager, Lucas Gómez, In a recent visit to Barranquilla, he expressed that in the country xenophobia is “full of negative perceptions.”
Faced with criticism, López replied that “the law provides for the deportation of those who commit crimes ”.
“That law is not xenophobic, it is logical. Asking that it be applied is not xenophobia either, it is using legal tools that we have to guarantee security, coexistence and justice for all, ”he said.
The capital’s police authorities, meanwhile, revealed the spoken portrait of one of Osvaldo Muñoz’s murderers.
Xenophobia grew 83%
According to the Xenophobia Barometer, a platform that systematizes conversations on Twitter and of which the Externado Save the Children, among other entities, is part, indicated that the murder of Osvaldo Muñoz and the statements of Claudia López “Xenophobic or discriminatory publications were promoted by 83% at the national level, compared to the previous day”, while in Bogotá they increased by 918% and in Barranquilla by 300%.
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