Investigation in the Public Prosecutor’s Office for the death of young people after fire at the Police CAI in Soacha – Investigation – Justice

This Tuesday a complaint was made known by the Bogotá councilor, Diego Cancino, who revealed that on September 4 there was a fire in a Soacha Police station and, after the conflagration, nine young people detained in that place died. One died at the station, while the others died days later in health centers.

After the councilor pointed out that apparently the police who were in the place did not take measures to protect the detainees and prevent the tragedy, the General Prosecutor’s Office ruled on the investigation into this case.

Following the complaint for these events, which occurred in the CAI San Mateo jail in Soacha, the Attorney General’s Office assured that this Wednesday the Delegate for Citizen Security will meet with the Director of the Cundinamarca Section to talk about the case.

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Sources of the accusing body indicated that “the entire investigation is already in place” and that it was collected “all possible probative material so far.”

He assured that these evidences are being evaluated by experts and according to the obtained evidence, responsibilities for the deaths of these citizens and “the possible crimes to be charged will be determined.”

This means that the Attorney General’s Office continues to evaluate the evidence it has and continues to define a methodological plan in this case, but it has not yet decided to charge anyone for these events.

The Cundinamarca Police said in a statement that on September 4 in the detained room of the San Mateo Police Station (Soacha), “11 people who were deprived of liberty in that place had decided to set fire to their mats and thereby generating a deflagration. As a consequence of these events, all of the alleged perpetrators were injured with first and second degree burns. “
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He added that the station police officers proceeded to control the fire and transfer the injured to medical centers. Of these, the Police say, eight died, two are in custody with medical treatment and one still remains
hospitalized.

Finally, they point out in the statement that a disciplinary investigation was opened to clarify the facts.

For its part, The Ombudsman’s Office assured that the institution requested that a work table be held In which the government of Cundinamarca, the Police, the Superior Council of the Judiciary and the Prosecutor’s Office participated.

In that meeting it was found that, in effect, there was overcrowding in several police stations of the department since in many of them people were detained who had not been able to be transferred because they had not been tested for covid-19, which was one of the measures required in the prison protocol due to the pandemic.

For this reason, the Ombudsman’s Office assured that a letter to Inpec and the Ministry of Justice came out of that meeting to expedite the tests with the Ministry of Health and to make the transfers of people who were detained in several CAIs of Cundinamarca to different prisons .

The Ombudsman’s Office He also said that he is accompanying the families and the judicial and disciplinary investigations for these events.

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According to Councilor Cancino, at the station where the fire occurred there were 20 young prisoners who, According to their complaint, they were being tortured, they were not given food and, furthermore, they were denied communication with their relatives.

In the midst of this situation, said Cancino, a young man burned a blanket “and it seems that after a few seconds, by means of a device that intensified that fire,” the fire spread through the police station.

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The councilor points out that, according to the relatives of the victims, the device was allegedly thrown by a police officer.

“The policemen left and left the boys locked up. They did not let anyone in and did not let the fire extinguishers be used. The boys were burned,” the Councilor denounced in his video.

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