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The mayor of Bogotá Claudia López said that what happened in the last hours in the capital regarding public order was a “massacre” and that “it is the most serious thing that has happened to Bogotá since the taking of the Palace of Justice.”
“They have been difficult days for our city, they have been painful days for dozens of families, in these days there were 72 citizens injured by a firearm in our city, 10 people lost their lives this week in alleged acts of police abuse, “he said.
So far, 13 people have died (10 in Bogotá, 3 in Soacha) amid the acts of violence triggered by the death of Javier Ordóñez, who received several electric shocks from police officers and beatings in various parts of the city. body that cost him his life.
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López pointed out that he asked President Iván Duque for a structural reform of the Police, a proposal that Duque rejected. “He dismisses this reform outright, I am very sorry because I think it is needed, but I thank the Attorney General who told me that he is going to analyze the possibility of an inter-institutional reform,” he said.
López stressed that, although an act of forgiveness has already been made with the lawyer Ordónez’s family, “it is not with a family, Mr. President, it is with at least eleven and 72 gunshot wounded.”
Such a massacre of our youth, such unleashed violence, needs an act of genuine forgiveness and reconciliation, which rebuilds trust between citizens and institutions. On Sunday we will do that act. We all want a Bogotá without fear, reconciled and at peace. pic.twitter.com/qdrLvNIp8Y
– Claudia López 👍 (@ClaudiaLopez) September 12, 2020
Furthermore, he stated that “There are criminal interests and acts, fifteen TransMilenio buses are not burned by outraged young people, nor are more than 45 CAIs in our city burned and vandalized due to anger and indignation.”
“Who were the injured? Young people. Some in the beds of the Police hospital, and the others in the beds of the hospitals of our city, that is not the future that our young people deserve, our first responsibility is with them, with their families, “he stressed.
The president said that citizens today demand that the truth be known, because this is one of the things that the families of the victims have asked the most.
“In 48 hours working hospital by hospital, victim by victim, family by family, the Mayor’s Office has managed to document 119 complaints of police abuse,” said López.
The mayor referred to the fact that the number of injuries and deaths is one of the most serious events in the history of the city. “This is the most serious thing that has happened to Bogotá since the taking of the Palace of Justice,” he said.
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He also reported the balance that the District gave to the National Government. “I gave them about an hour and a half of video that we have in which members of the public force are clearly shown shooting indiscriminately at members of society,” he said.
López added that he also handed them 119 documented complaints of police abuse.
“It cannot happen that in Bogotá there are some members of the Police who continue to keep their uniforms, who continue to be armed when they have been shot by citizens,” he added.
According to López, President Iván Duque affirmed that he has already requested to establish which members of the public force used their weapons in the last 48 hours.
“I have invited the President of the Republic to make an act of reconciliation and forgiveness, to make an act of reconciliation and forgiveness with our young people, with our citizens,” he added.
BOGOTA
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