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The last week has been difficult for the country, especially in Bogotá after the protests and vandalism unleashed after the death of Javier Ordóñez after being subjected by the Police in the west of the country’s capital in a case of evident abuse of authority.
In the riots and vandalism that took place for at least three nights, 10 people who participated in the protests that took place in different areas of the capital or who were passing through the site of the riots and another three in Soacha lost their lives in Bogotá.
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Given these events, the director of RCN News, Juan Lozano, spoke with President Iván Duque. One of the questions that he asked the president referred to the victims.
They have accused him of not having empathy with the victims, of not having approached the victims. How has your relationship with them been?
Duque affirmed that he has met and spoken with relatives of the victims of these events, as well as he has visited many of the police officers who have been injured after the clashes with the vandals in recent days.
“I had a conversation that had a great impact on me with Don Harold, the father of Julieth Ramírez, one of the girls who died,” said the Head of State. “I am shocked by these testimonies. When you have these kinds of conversations, you don’t do them for the cameras and microphones to see,” added Duque.
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Likewise, the President of the Republic affirmed that he told relatives of other victims that he is going to do “whatever is necessary to clarify this quickly and that there is justice, because that is the way it has to be.”
The president concluded by emphatically assuring that empathy, for which he has been criticized, is not for political gain.
“Empathy is not to seek applause and that the cameras reflect it to try to look good, no. Empathy is human and it is human without seeking to take political advantage of it,” concluded President Iván Duque
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