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Bogotá woke up this Thursday with a bleak outlook – after having lived through a night of protests and vandalism that claimed the lives of seven people, 5 in the capital and 2 in Soacha– according to the National Police.
Similarly, 140 injured people were reported. 87 policemen; of them, 81 in Bogotá, 3 in Soacha and 3 in Madrid, Cundinamarca. At the same time, 53 civilians were wounded, mostly with “strong elements.”
The bodies of the deceased are being transferred to Legal Medicine.
General Jorge Luis Vargas, director of citizen security of the Police, said this morning that about the first hours of the night –of yesterday– “it was known of the death of three citizens with a firearm“Immediately, he assured, the Public Prosecutor’s Office opened the urgent acts to verify the facts,” the circumstances, and thus establish whether they are directly related “to the activities registered in the areas where disturbances were reported, in this case in the town of Kennedy .
Within the reports, he said that it was known that two more people were reported as dead in hospital centers in Bogotá, who would have been affected in these events, a situation that – he pointed out – is verified.
Defense Minister Carlos Holmes Trujillo reiterated this morning that up to 50 million pesos are offered for information that makes it possible to identify the people involved in the homicides and acts of vandalism, “and we are willing to increase the number, but these deaths cannot remain in impunity,” he said.
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General Gustavo Alberto Moreno, director in charge of the Police, delivered a balance on the acts of vandalism registered last night. He confirmed that 56 police facilities were affected, 53 CAI -49 in Bogotá, 3 in Soacha and one in Cali, Valle del Cauca- were vandalized. In the capital 22 CAI were cremated.
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According to the Police, in the report known by this newspaper, that 77 vehicles were affected, 37 TransMilenio buses were vandalized and 8 incinerated. In addition to 49 vandalized SITP buses and five incinerated.
70 people were captured for damage to the public good and attack against a public servant: 33 in Bogotá, 17 in Madrid, 6 in Ibagué,
3 in Mosquera, 1 in Medellín and 1 in Cali
In addition to this, 25 police motorcycles were affected: 4 incinerated in the CAI Molinos, in the south of Bogotá. In addition to 9 damaged Police vehicles. In Castile they cremated a patrol.
Added to this is that five banking entities were attacked, two commercial establishments, “for which 70 people were captured for damage to the public good and attack against a public servant. 33 in Bogotá, 17 in Madrid, 6 in Ibagué, 3 in Mosquera, 1 in Medellín and 1 in Cali, “General Moreno reported.
Bogotá will reinforce the number of policemen with 750 uniformed officers, and another 850 will arrive from other areas of the country. Similarly, To prevent new excesses, 300 soldiers from the Army’s 13th Brigade will support the work of the Police in the country’s capital.
Police cannot be stigmatized
“The balance shows the atrocity of the vandalism, the atrocity of the violence that took place yesterday, this balance mourns society since it claimed human lives, mourns society since it led to the damage to public goods that are at the service of the citizenry, “said Minister Trujillo, rejecting the day of violence recorded in the last hours.
The official reiterated that the death of Javier Ordóñez “hurts”, he was a law student and died in the middle of a police operation, which led to the rejection of citizenship.
“The government’s policy is zero tolerance with the violation of the law and constitutional norms (…) For this reason, we once again reject, with pain and indignation, the facts that could compromise two police officers, and that ended in the death of Mr. Ordóñez“said the Minister, assuring that by instructions of President Duque they will continue to support and facilitate the investigations carried out by the competent authorities on this fact.
Finally, Trujillo said that he rejects the “stigmatization” that is intended to be done against the National Police, the acts contrary to the law in which some of the uniformed officers may have incurred “cannot lead to the general statement that some claim to make of the institution.”
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