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“It should be noted that the organized and systematic nature of what we have experienced recently is also the product of infiltrations,” Trujillo said in a statement in the Casa de Nariño, headquarters of the Executive.
He added: “Infiltrations of the Eln, of the FARC dissidents and of other groups with different denominations of anarchists and terrorists that do nothing more than destroy public property and citizen infrastructure dedicated to security, as happened recently in Bogotá and other capitals “.
Also read: Internal investigations of the Police are advancing: Ministry of Defense.
At least 13 people have died in Colombia during violent protests against police abuses that began with the death of Javier Ordóñez in an operation in which at least two uniformed men subjected him brutally.
Trujillo said that what happened this week is “a manifestation of violence and vandalism, articulated, systematic and organized.”
“The Government will always respect legitimate and peaceful protest. The authorities exist to guarantee it, as they also exist to legitimately confront these manifestations of violence, vandalism and destruction,” he added.
Response to Claudia López’s proposal
On the other hand, the mayor of Bogotá, Claudia López, took on Friday to President Iván Duque a proposal to “recognize once and for all that the Police should be a civil body, that they have neither training, nor operation, nor jurisdiction. military, but is a civil body that responds to the public and to the ordinary justice. ”
“The president says that he discards the plan, that reform. I am very sorry because I frankly believe that it is needed. But I thank the attorney general (Fernando Carrillo), who has told me that he is going to examine the probability of calling an inter-institutional reform (…) to propose to Congress, “added the senior official.
In this regard, the Defense Minister assured today that, contrary to what López says, the Police are in “a process of reform” and “modernization” that has been coming “for a long time.”
“Modernization is part of this policy and includes different aspects such as, for example, its foundation in human rights, in legality, in citizen dialogue, in citizen trust, in the professionalization of the Police, in the improvement of selection processes, of acting, “he said.
He also stressed that Duque “is willing to study any initiative that is presented to him.”
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