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Bogotá woke up this Thursday with a bleak outlook. After experiencing a night of protests and vandalism, which lasted until dawn, it was known that seven people lost their lives, five in the capital and two more in Soacha. In addition, 140 injured people were reported.
“Seven individuals were killed, five in Bogotá and two in Soacha,” said the deputy director of the Police, General Gustavo Moreno, in a press conference with the Minister of Defense, Carlos Holmes Trujillo, in which he added that 55 civilians and 93 soldiers suffered injuries during the wave of vandalism in which police facilities and public buses were burned.
The tragic day that the capital of the country lived began on Wednesday afternoon when the protests took place in the CAI of Villa Luz, the place where Ordóñez citizen would have died.
A mob of people destroyed the CAI in a few minutes and then clashed with the Police until after 10 o’clock at night, causing the CAI, a prosecutor’s car, to be burned, and looting of businesses in the sector.
This scenario was repeated in different neighborhoods of the capital of Colombia, with social networks as witness.
After 10 at night the balance was already worrying, attacks on the CAI in the towns of Suba, Kennedy, Fontibón, Engativá, among others. Most of those places were looted and then burned. In the same the protest was dispersed with the presence of Esmad.
The mob also began to burn buses, both from the Transmilenio service and from the SITP. In a parking lot, in the Bosa sector, five burned articulated buses were burned. In various sectors of the city, such as in the center of the capital, several financial entities were looted as well as electronic tellers.
The public order situation forced a meeting of the Bogotá security agencies and the national government, which even had the presence of the President of the Republic, Iván Duque, at the Unified Command Post.
According to the authorities’ report, 49 CAIs were vandalized, 45 in Bogotá, three in Soacha and one in Cali, Valle del Cauca. In the Capital, 17 were cremated.
The Defense Minister announced a reward of $ 50 million to find the whereabouts of those responsible for the killings that occurred during the riots in Bogotá.
Through her Twitter account, the mayor of Bogotá, Claudia López, called for calm and lamented the day of violence.
“Today we wake up not with one but with three deaths to mourn. A structural reform of the Police is needed but destroying Bogotá is not going to fix anything ”.
Regarding security measures for the city, he reported that the police force in Bogotá will be reinforced with 750 uniformed personnel, plus 850 who arrive from other regions of the country; 300 soldiers from the Army’s 13th Brigade will be enabled to support the work of the National Police in the country’s capital.
What happened
In a video, published by Blu Radio, two patrolmen are observed to use force with the man, who was already reduced on the floor of a public road and asked: “Stop, please.”
In the same radio medium, Colonel Alexander Amaya, operational commander of the Metropolitan Police of the capital, detailed that a quadrant of the town of Engativá received a call to report a fight and that was the reason why the patrolmen went to the place .
“Upon arriving at the site, there are about eight people arguing and everything seems to indicate that with the intake of intoxicating beverages. It is about dissuading these people, but they become aggressive against the Police ”, she assured.
According to the colonel’s version, “some of these people were taken to the CAI and at that moment, one of them presented discomfort in his physical health and was immediately transferred to the nearest medical center, where he unfortunately arrived without vital signs.”
The operational commander added that the Police Disciplinary Affairs Unit will open an investigation to clarify the facts. Likewise, the CTI of the Prosecutor’s Office is also conducting the respective investigation.
Duke condemned the fact
President Iván Duque condemned on Wednesday the events in which the 46-year-old lawyer Javier Ordóñez died after a controversial police procedure and emphasized that there must be “zero tolerance” with cases of abuse involving officials of the public force.
“All of us as a society must demand zero tolerance with the abuse of human rights by members of the public force,” he said emphatically on Wednesday afternoon in the midst of the commemoration of National Human Rights Day. As they have earned that place in the hearts and admiration of the people, we have to be clear that there can be no tolerance when the uniform and authority are abused, “said Duque.
The president described the events in which Ordóñez died as “painful”, but highlighted the “gallant and ironclad” attitude of the institutionality “so that the investigations are carried out, so that progress can be made quickly and that the norms are applied as has what to be”.
“To any dishonor of the uniform we have to demand that timely and objective sanctions be applied and, of course, the product of rigorous investigations,” said the head of state.
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