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A momentous version change had the patrol car Juan Camilo Lloreda, who had said that he was innocent and had denied the charges against him for his responsibility in the death of the engineer and law student Javier Ordonez, assassinated on September 9 in Bogotá.(Also: The new pronouncement of the Prosecutor’s Office on the case of Álvaro Uribe)
However, as EL TIEMPO learned, in the last hours Lloreda decided to accept the charges to obtain a penalty reduction.
Now, the judge of the case will have to define if he endorses the preliminary agreement that the patrolman reached with the Prosecutor’s office.
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This newspaper learned that the diligence that was taking place this Tuesday and in which the Prosecutor’s Office was going to present the preliminary agreement had to be suspended due to damage to the electricity service. And it was rescheduled for next April 6.
At the hearing, the victim’s representative can oppose the negotiation.
However, lawyer Vadhir Gómez, who represents the victim’s family, indicated that they participated in the process to reach the preliminary agreement and that they were in agreement with what was defined there.
He indicated that the Prosecutor’s Office made it clear that it would not advance in this negotiation without the participation of the victims.
“What we hope is that the hearing can be held and the judge endorses the agreement so that it remains firm,” said the lawyer.
The uniformed man would pay a sentence of 20 years in prison, if the preliminary agreement is final.
The judge in the case considered that the Prosecutor’s Office should withdraw the accusation against the defendant and then present the preliminary agreement to be able to advance in its process.
The murder of Javier Ordonez It aroused the rejection of a broad sector of the Bogota population, and led to a violent day of protests.
The engineer was a victim of police abuse after hanging out with some friends. In videos, which are part of the material under investigation, it is reported that the agents beat him and fired a ‘taser’ type gun against his body on different occasions. The events were recorded in an Immediate Attention Center (CAI) in the neighborhood Villa Luz, in the town of Engativá.
Days later, before the 29th judge with a guarantee control function, Lloreda and his partner Harvy Damián Rodríguez Díaz, linked to the homicide, pleaded not guilty to the crimes of homicide and aggravated torture that the accusing entity charged them with.
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