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The + trending Violent day of demonstrations against police abuse
LThe total death toll after the violent day of protests against police abuse last night in Bogotá and other cities in Colombia rose to ten this Thursday with the report of two new deaths in the country’s capital and the populous town of Soacha, reported the authorities.
Until today morning the death of eight people who had been shot with firearms had been confirmedHowever, during the day the mayors of both places reported two other deaths.
In Bogotá, seven young people between 17 and 27 years of age died, while in Soacha, a town located in the south of the Colombian capital, another three died.
“I must forcefully reject the events that occurred last night where three human beings were sadly deceased “, confirmed the mayor of Soacha Juan Carlos Saldarriaga, who added that there are also three police officers hospitalized under a reserved forecast.
For her part, the Mayor of Bogotá, Claudia López, reported that the death toll in the capital rose to seven with the death of a young woman who remained in an intensive care unit (ICU).
“We unfortunately have an additional case of a deceased person. Angie Paola Vaquero died in Engativá Hospital, 19 years old, was shot yesterday, was treated and was in intensive care but unfortunately passed away“Lopez said.
The protests began in front of the Immediate Action Command (CAI) of the Police of the Villa Luz neighborhood, in the west of Bogotá, where the two uniformed men worked who at dawn yesterday subjected with brutality and the prolonged use of an electric pistol Taser to Javier Ordóñez, a 46-year-old lawyer and father of two young children, who died shortly after in a clinic.
The president of Bogotá made a tough claim to the Police, institution which he claimed to have disobeyed the instructions given by the Mayor’s Office since November last year when Dilan Cruz, a young bachelor, died after receiving a projectile fired from a member of the Mobile Anti-Riot Squad (Esmad) during a protest in the capital.
“I can say with absolute certainty that neither from the National Unified Command Post nor from the District Unified Command Post was no order or authorization to use force, much less firearms, against the protesters “, he assured.
Despite this, López said that “lethal weapons were used indiscriminately against defenseless citizens and youth“, and that” therefore those facts must be investigated, punished and condemned by the independent ordinary justice. ”
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