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The Prosecutor’s Office was in charge of revealing that equine meat was distributed in various schools in Bucaramanga and other cities in Santander through the School Feeding Program (PAE), for which they captured Fernando Trujillo Gómez, alias ‘the Godfather’, who used chemicals to alter the texture of the product and give it a reddish color to pass it off as beef.
After knowing this fact, several students from Bucaramanga schools told Blu Radio that many times, after consuming food in school canteens, they had stomach pain, nausea, and vomiting; however, they did not make the respective complaint.
“I did realize that when I went in for lunch, the meat tasted ugly. I did not taste like the one at home or the one they prepare in the restaurant. The meat tasted sour, it didn’t taste the same and it was very tough, “said one of the minors on the station.
Another boy told the media that, realizing that he always felt discomfort when eating food at school, He preferred to tell his mother to pass the report to the institution, which is why his guardian decided to send a note so that they would not continue giving them food. “After having lunch, my stomach hurt a lot,” emphasized the child.
A student leader, who preferred to keep his name for safety, told the station that By introducing this type of meat, all they were doing was playing with the health of him and all his companions. “I know that many children we felt bad at school but we did not inform,” he added.
How did they get horse and donkey meat to schools?
The authorities indicated that, after several investigations, they were able to determine that Trujillo Gómez and other people bought the sick and dead animals and then transferred them from the Atlantic Coast to the capital of Santander, city where they sacrificed them to later sell them.
The Prosecutor’s Office also highlighted that the subject managed to sell between 2,000 and 2,500 kilograms of meat of that type to the operators of the School Food Plan in Santander, product for which these people had to pay more than 500 million pesos.
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