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“A patient is admitted without vital signs, full pupils and signs of death, dorsal lividity, time of death is decreed (…)”.
This is part of the medical history of citizen Javier Humberto Ordóñez Bermúdez, brutally beaten by two police officers between the night of September 9 and the early morning of September 10, in western Bogotá.
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The document, a video and 6 photographs taken at the clinic, to which EL TIEMPO reporters had access, are part of the evidence that the defense of the family will use to try to prove that, after the electric shocks from a gun Taser and a severe beating, Ordóñez would have died in the CAI of Villa Luz.
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In fact, it is a matter of hours for the prosecutor of the Human Rights Unit Juan Carlos Oliveros to take the first measures against the uniformed officers involved.
In addition to a severe blow to the temple on the right side of the face, the photos and video reveal what appears to be a twinge in the right shoulder.
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The witness and the threatened
And after the autopsy, a wound was also detected on his right leg. In fact, relatives will ask that it be established if it was a bullet chip.
The photos also show purple around the neck, left eye and wrists. According to witnesses, Ordóñez was handcuffed with his hands behind him and only one of his handcuffs was removed when two of his friends arrived at the Police CAI and demanded that an ambulance be called.
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For now, the family made the decision not to show the photos, which may be strong, but – they say – are key.
However, relatives say that the death was related to the blows he received in the abdominal part of the body, at the level of the liver.
EL TIEMPO reconstructed the itinerary of Ordóñez’s transfer from the moment of the electric shocks, in the corner of the complex where he lived, until he arrived at the Partenón Clinic in Santa María del Lago, located 7 minutes by car from the CAI, in a straight line .
According to witnesses, Ordóñez was rebuked the first time by the two agents when he was on the benches on 53rd Street, near the Villa Luz neighborhood park, drinking whiskey.
“Again you, Javier,” said one of the uniformed men, according to one of Ordóñez’s friends.
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And they say that he responded to the police harshly and left for his house. A camera, located in front of the set, would test this path.
But before arriving, say those close to Ordóñez (43), the agents reached him and the scene that the country already knows was recorded, in which he is seen when they reduce him with 8 shots from the pistol Taser.
In addition to a strong blow to the level of the temple on the right side of the face, the photos and video reveal what appears to be a twinge in the right shoulder
Then, they say, he was put into a truck of of the Police and his relatives were informed that he would be taken to the Immediate Reaction Unit (URI) of La Granja.
His friend, Wílder Salazar, who has already reported to the Prosecutor’s Office that he is being the victim of threats, went up to the of and ensures that they diverted to the CAI of Villa Luz.
According to him, his friend continued to be beaten there despite the arrival of other policemen who witnessed the episode.
Javier Ordóñez died after receiving electric shocks from a policeman in Bogotá. Authorities investigate the abuse of the uniformed.
“In fact, one of her aunts asked to be allowed up to the of and they did not allow it ”, assure those close to Ordóñez.
According to these testimonies, Wílder managed to call a friend to tell her to get him out of CAI. On their cell phones is the communication log.
The relative says that she went to the place and, as she points out, when she approached and asked for her acquaintances, the patrolman Juan Camilo Lloreda Cubillos (one of those involved) told her that they were not at the scene.
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“This is on the verge of forced disappearance,” a close friend told EL TIEMPO.
The version of the defense is that, at that moment, Juan David Uribe, Ordóñez’s other friend, showed up and demanded that they be allowed to see him.
As he said, when he saw Ordóñez yellow and disgraced, he asked for an ambulance to be called urgently.
But the policemen decided to take him on a patrol to the clinic.
Times, key
For the investigators of the case, the time that elapsed between the discharges with the Taser, the climb to the of of the Police (where, according to the witness, he was beaten) and the arrival at CAI is key. What is being sought is whether, as the clinical history indicates, Ordóñez arrived without vital signs. This would mean that he left the CAI dead.
But the version that EL TIEMPO revealed last Friday of the patrol car Lloreda is radically different.
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He says that Ordóñez was a repeat offender, that they took him to CAI because of a scandal and that he later told them that he felt bad. It was then that they decided to take him to the clinic where, he says, he arrived alive.
Given the difference in versions, the video inside the CAI is key and is already in the hands of the authorities. The version of another citizen –Marco Valencia– who assures that the patrolman Lloreda attacked him days ago is also evaluated.
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